<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">Minister of State for Earth Sciences, Dr. Jitendra Singh said, India is committed to furthering sustainable development in line with Indian culture of living in harmony with nature. He said this while addressing a function to celebrate World Earth Day in New Delhi on Saturday. Dr. Singh stressed that the need of the hour is to solve the challenge faced by the planet using human-centric, collective efforts and robust action.</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"> </p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">The Minister mentioned that the idea of LiFE was introduced by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi during COP26. He said, it promotes an environmentally conscious lifestyle that focuses on mindful and deliberate utilisation instead of mindless and wasteful consumption. Dr. Singh said that his Ministry is holistically addressing all the aspects relating the Earth System Science for providing weather, climate, ocean, coastal state, hydrological and seismological services.</p>