Mission LiFE (Lifestyle for Environment), introduced by Prime Minister of India at COP26 in Glasgow, aligns with the World Environment Day (June 5). The LiFE majorly aims to promote individual, daily actions to protect and preserve the environment into a “Pro-Planet People” through a mass movement. Additionally, there is a need for paradigm shift from "mindless and destructive consumption" to "mindful and deliberate utilization". Under this, various activities are identified which spread across 7 themes, including saving water, conserving energy, reducing waste, managing e-waste, eliminating single-use plastics, promoting sustainable food systems, and adopting healthy lifestyles.
On the occasion of World Environment Day, 5th June 2026 (WED 2026), the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) is anchoring initiatives around Mission LiFE along with pre-campaigns being organized from 15th May to 4th June 2026. This initiative is implemented as a nationwide movement through various participating organizations along with their concerned Divisions. MoEFCC has advised the NRM Division, ICAR, MoA&FW and DARE, to undertake activities in align with the theme “Climate Action”.
Accordingly, ICAR-CRIDA in collaboration with other ICAR Institutes/ SAUs/ KVKs/others organized an online workshop on “Rainwater Harvesting, Water Conservation and its efficient use” for climatic action on 4 June, 2026 as a part of the WED 2026 celebration. The sole objective of this workshop was to create awareness on rainwater harvesting, water conservation and its efficient use and 100 participants attended.
Dr. Manoranjan Kumar, Principal Scientist, ICAR-CRIDA welcomed the dignitaries and participants to the workshop. Dr V K Singh, Director, ICAR-CRIDA delivered his address. He stressed about the need of maintaining clean air, water and healthy soil for environment and ecosystem sustainability.
Dr K V Rao, Head, DRM, ICAR-CRIDA briefed about the Mission LiFE and workshop. Noted expert Dr. A. Sarangi, Director, ICAR-IIWM Bhubaneswar shared his vast experience on water harvesting, re-designing of structures and recent advances in water resources management. Dr. G. Pratibha, PI, NICRA-TDC shared her own research experiences as well as the NICRA-TDC interventions. Representatives from WASSAN and WoTR shared their expertise on portable solar powered irrigation system and experiences in making communities responsible to conserve and use water in an equitable and efficient manner through water budgeting and crop choice respectively.
Later, the success stories from KVKs, namely, Durg, Kullu, Jalna and West Jaintia Hills and AICRPDA centres were shared for creating the awareness followed by a discussion. Dr K.V Rao in his concluding remarks mentioned about the importance of creating and spreading awareness on resource conservation in this El Niño year 2026. Dr Rejani, Principal Scientist concluded the session with formal vote of thanks.
