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The tribal community faces problems by way of Poverty, Malnutrition, Low literacy, Lack of Sanitation and Quality drinking water, Lack of basic health services, Social-Traditional belief and customs etc., an overall environment will be resulted in to poor quality of life; leads to poor mental health. This research study has planned to know the effect of short term integrated yoga module for to know the effect of Quality of Life and Positive Negative Emotions of the Tribal Adolescent School Girls; living in Chhatralaya. Tribal adolescent girls; aged 10 to 19, total 46 nos. of adolescent girls were participated and attended yoga classes taught by trained yoga therapist for 15 days. The module included loosening, Suryanamaskara, asanas, breathing exercises, Krida yoga, and meditation and relaxation techniques. The assessment was carried out one prior intervention as wells as on 15 th day. All the participants were asked practice regularly. The Quality of Life was measured by using Youth Quality of Life (YQOL-SF). This contains 15 perpetual items measuring the domain of sense of self, social relationship, environment and general quality of life. The Positive Negative Emotions were measured by using Positive Negative Affects Schedule (PANAS-SF). The PANAS is a 20 items self-report measure of positive and negative effects. This contains two 10 items mood scale and was developed to provide brief measure of positive and negative effects. For the results, normality test was carried out for consideration of parametric / non-parametric test. The data was found that it was normally distributed; Shapiro Wilk test; paired 't' test at 95% confidence interval level was carried out for hypothesis testing to measure the effects after 15 days IAYT. Quality of Life Results: The results showed significant improvement: t (34) =-2.202, P = 0.035.