Introduction

Indigenous communities have environmental perspective in building houses for their living and constructing facilities for community amenities and functions. Sufficient details are paid attention in order to make houses not only comfortable but also environmentally designed with adequate natural light, ventilation, cooling, heating and structural resilience to withstand disasters like flood, storms and earthquake.

Education plays pivotal role in removing score of social ills, evils and habits prevalent in traditional communities of India. Innovative courses and their delivery systems like Distance Education have made it possible to provide world-class education to the local youth at almost no cost and also simultaneously equip them with vocational skills and entrepreneurial traits good enough to sustain an average, peaceful and health community life.

Community living with shared social resources creates a resilient framework for survival and growth in any community. Eco-communities are diverse and rich not only in terms of resources, but, mainly through their mechanism to protect the rights and interest of vulnerable social groups such as Old age people, Child and Women. With the aid and support of government agencies and Educational and social organisations, various welfare oriented measures have been taken to uplift the general economic standards and lives of people living in these communities.

Bio-fertilizers, Crop Cycle-Crop Management, Indigenous Farming practices and tested agricultural know-how are some of the dimensions indicating the richness, diversity and growth of agriculture sector in traditional communities particularly located in disaster-prone areas. Not only providing for the local employment but, it also caters immensely to the secondary and tertiary sectors as resources supply point.

The rich reservoir of precious plants and biological resources abundantly distributed and inherited by the Eco-communities in India serves as back-bone for the sustainability of socio-economic systems. The extracts of plants are not only used extensively as medicines in the households but also supplied to the local or outside industries for formulation, manufacturing and marketing of a range of natural drugs and medicines heavily preferred by millions of people across the world.

Traditional communities have quite resilient cultural, heritage and spiritual systems with strict social and environmental norms helping them sustaining their identity and longevity over ages and changing times. These norms have ensured cohesiveness in the community as well for setting social structure and hierarchy in terms of division of work and roles shared mutually across various gender and age groups.

Optimal utilization of traditional skills and craftsmanship fused harmlessly with economic competitiveness is at the core of promoting traditional industries and employments in eco-communities of India. The thrust is to make local artisans and youth, adequately adept in requisite traits and competencies to explore self-livelihood at native place without migrating to urban locations. Agro and allied industries also flourish as a result of abundance of resources available domestically.

Green Technology includes a variety of innovative inventions, ideas, methods and practices having blend with traditional and modern know-how as possessed by Eco-Indigenous communities and which capitalizes maximum on resources available locally. It develops on the basic premise of preserving and protecting social and ecological balance with that of growing necessities and challenges of modern life.