Life skills development approach is an integral part of all encompassing process of socialization that continues throughout the human life. School education is an essential part of this process.

Individual apply the acquired life skills in different contexts differently. Thus, it is a process of development of skill application ability. The approach frame work of life skills development has the following four major strands.

• Context Educational programmes have to be designed keeping in view the context.

• Content while designing, the content area also has to be seen. For more sensitive issues much care is required in developing life skills.

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• Activity it is very important to identify which activity will be more effective in developing specific life skills.

• Process An activity can be organised to attain different objectives. It is the process of organising the activity that makes a fundamental difference by providing exact direction for attaining the desired objective.