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In today's technocratic era using smartphones is the need of the hour but at the same time refraining from the addiction is the demand of the hour. Smartphones have so many advantages and contribute to the formation of the digital world by bringing the world into a small rectangle. Digitalisation will add one more milestone in humans' technological development but also raises a question in our minds, shall it be a heavenly life with smartphones in each hand? It has many adverse effects on human beings, especially children and students. This is the 21st century and the year 2024, Today, all children including school students are under the category of "Digital Native", this generation has to understand that excessive use of smartphones will lead to addiction and pave the way for technological health hazards like Smartphone Stress, Blackberry Stress Injuries Thumb, Radiation from the cell phones, Cell Phone Sickness, Crazy Phones, Wrist Pain, Back & Neck Pain, Decreased Sperm Count from the Wi-Fi, Sleeping Problems Decreased attention span from using Facebook, Anxiety, Headphone Use leading to Accidents, Hearing Loss, Visual Impairment, Death from Social Networking, Environmental Degradation, Aggression, Social Crimes, etc. According to NEP 2020, digitalization of education inclusion of ICT and Yoga education and holistic development sometimes stand against each other. Excessive use of everything is bad, COVID-19 taught us many things simultaneously it taught us the use of smartphones, ICT, and technical gadgets needed for study but at the same time, it left the footprints of smartphone addiction among many children and students. Sports, games, yoga, and physical education can be a master stroke in protecting us from the evils of smartphone addiction. If the inclusion of physical education at the school level is done it will give a new dimension to the sapling children and shaping youths of school. Our education system persists in the core values of the "Siksha Mandir" and "Gurukul" system it shapes the students by all means and helps in holistic development. Physical education will not only help in physical development but also mental development by liberating students from Smartphone addiction.