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Nation Defence Expo and Mission Life

MANTRA OF MISSION LiFE- 'LIFE-STYLE FOR THE ENVIRONMENT'

We are using 1.6 times more resources to LIFE follows the core principle of 'Life
support our lifestyle than what our planet Earth Style of the Planet, for the Planet and by
can sustain. This great excess has been linked the Planet'. It inspires us that all of us
to great inequality. I am very excited by India's can do a lot in our everyday life in which
commitment to pursuing environmentally the environment is protected. Lifestyle
sound policies and its resolve to increase changes can help protect
investment in renewable energy. the environment.
-Antonio Guterres, United Nations -Narendra Modi,
Secretary-General. Prime Minister.

India is leading the global campaign of One Sun, a situation, Mission LIFE launched from Gujarat will
One World, One Grid. By playing a leading role in strengthen the concept of P-3 model. P-3 means Pro
the creation of the Coalition for Disaster Resilient Planet People. The way to the future can be paved
Infrastructure, India has made the world aware of its only by learning from the mistakes of the past.
concept of environmental protection. It now seeks Prime Minister Narendra Modi says, "Mantra
to further enhance its partnership with the world to of mission LIFE is 'life-style for the environment'."
further strengthen its resolve towards environmental Mission Life democratizes the fight against climate
protection. As the next step in this series, on 20 change in which everyone can contribute according
October Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched to their potential. Prime Minister Modi quoted the
Mission LIFE at the Statue of Unity in Ekta Nagar, Atharvaveda as saying, “Mata Bhoomih Putroham
Kevadiya in Gujarat. Prithivya” means the earth is our mother and we
Gujarat is one of the states in India that first are her children." 'Reduce, Reuse and Recycle' and
started working towards renewable energy and circular economy have been a part of Indian way of
environmental protection. Gujarat has always been life. Mission LIFE will include every lifestyle method
a trendsetter, whether it is the installation of solar related to the conservation of nature, which was
panels on canals or water conservation campaigns adopted by our ancestors and which can be made a
to raise water levels in drought-prone areas. In such part of our lifestyle today.

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