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Education helps the child to acquire new skills and knowledge that will impact development in life. Kerala Secondary School Curriculum gives due importance to Science education. Normally the content selected is taught by linking it with its scientific value. Education in Kerala, give importance to religion together with science learning. Considering Science and religion separately, promotion of Science is considered as the duty of teachers in the school while value inculcation is considered as the responsibility of religious people. This responsibility sharing actually supporting the social life of people in Kerala. But the investigator as a religious preacher and as a Chemistry teacher was always attracted with the studies related to inculcation of social values and social skills in schools through the learning of various school subjects. If the Value Integrated Chemistry lessons are planned in an intellectually honest manner, it will help in promoting Social Skills in secondary school students. Here comes the importance of Value Integrated Chemistry Learning Package. Hence the present study aims to develop a Value Integrated Chemistry Learning Package Spiced with Holy verses for Fostering Social Skills in Secondary School Students. The investigator employed experimental method and the design used was pre-test post-test single group design. The population of the study consists of secondary school students of Kerala state syllabus and the sample of the study was 35 students from one secondary school in Ernakulam district. The findings of the study highlight the fact that the developed learning package is helpful in fostering Social Skills in secondary school students.