Read the following passage carefully and answer the question that follows.
On one Sunday every month, a school hall in Bengaluru fills with broken things: mixers that will not start, torn school bags, lamps with frayed wiring, headphones that play in one ear. At the repair cafe, visitors do not hand their items over a counter and wait. They sit beside volunteer fixers, engineers, tailors and retired technicians, and repair the items with their own hands, learning to use a multimeter or a sewing awl as they go. Organisers say the point is not free service but a change of habit: most household devices are discarded for faults that cost very little to fix. The obstacles, they add, are not only skills. Many products are built so that repair is difficult, with sealed bodies, glued in batteries and screws that no ordinary screwdriver fits, and for others the quoted price of an authorised repair is so close to the price of a new unit that replacement feels rational. Repair cafes cannot change product design, the organisers admit. What they can change is the reflex that reaches for the dustbin, and attendance suggests the reflex is weakening: the Bengaluru cafe now logs more than two hundred repairs a month, and keeps a growing waitlist of schools asking to host one.
Which of the following best states the central idea of the passage?
Repair cafes are reviving the habit of fixing household items by letting people repair their own things with volunteer guidance, even though product design and repair pricing still push consumers toward replacement
Volunteer engineers in Bengaluru have invented low cost tools that make sealed consumer products easy to open and repair at home
The high price of new appliances is forcing most households in Indian cities to learn professional repair skills
Repair cafes have succeeded in persuading manufacturers to stop using glued in batteries and non standard screws in their products
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