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Acquiring knowledge is a phenomenon, where the owner of it gains through different mechanisms-through experience, external factors, internal factors, formal, informal, etc. and it may be tacit or implicit or explicit. Some knowledge is such that it is confined to some special group/clans or very much intervened/mingled with lifestyle or functional life/culture of the community. And such knowledge is mostly undocumented which hinges around the community and pass on generations to generations orally or through practice, legends, myths, taboos, poetry, etc. Such a treasure of knowledge is known as the indigenous knowledge or traditional knowledge. The beauty and pride of such knowledge is incomparable. Some communities are well known for their indigenous knowledge they retains. In the contemporary world, if modern technology and indigenous knowledge are simultaneously capitalized then some of the unaddressed problems related to every realm of life may be mitigated in more effective and efficient manner. Indigenous knowledge are very rich in nature but it is vanishing from its existence because these kind of knowledge is usually not documented, possessors are not willing to share, and not practiced. So, through this paper author attempts to highlight the issues and challenges confronted in the process of its documentation and dissemination of the same to reap full advantage