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Technological developments in the Digital Era have conquered the minds of the students. These developments focus on the quality assurance in Education. Though these developments lead to knowledge society there is a need to develop life skills among the students in order to empower them. In this digital era students right from Primary schools up to College level are able to learn everything technological equipments. Even after utilizing these facilities they are subjected to lot of social evils like terrorism, drug abuse, sexual harassments, corruption etc. This is the right time to empower the younger generation to attain life skills utilizing the technology in the digital era. Ten life skills are prescribed by World Health Organization which are divided as Thinking Skills, Emotional Skills and Social Skills. Tamilnadu state is developing these skills among the adolescents by three programs. Now this forum may take some initiatives to create technological measures to bring digitalized Life Skill Education Program. Then we can confidently say that the generation will be empowered holistically in the digital era.