Indigenous Model of Sustainable Development: A Case Study of Techno-Traditional Wisdom in a Punjabi Village.

The current paper is an attempt to build a case for the revitalization of Indigenous Knowledge System which is intellectual property of a native community that resides in a particular environment and enjoying a friendly ecological interaction with ecological niche. The commercialization of development theory with mere economic terms and statistics has hijacked the integrity of indigenous knowledge and resources. The local populations are under continuous mental stress to produce more and more to earn their living and monetary resources. This paper has a long term vision of refreshing the local knowledge as it discusses the gradual shift in development theory towards giving space for locally based knowledge system as a viable option for launching sustainable development. In fact, all considerable countries of the world are struggling to devise an alternative but sustainable strategy for their livelihoods. In such a case that most of the world's brethren is reviewing their local knowledge systems then why Pakistan lags behind the same. For Pakistan, sustainable development would simply mean non-reliance upon any foreign developmental model. The development that is sprung out of native and local resources both human and natural would call for development not only for the current generation but for the ones to come. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]