Establishment of community learning centers (CLCs) The CLCs may be defined as a place, institution or center supervised by the local people where persons of every age group or creed have equal access to knowledge and information and learning skills. Such a cluster of activities can be provided in the form of print media such as news papers and journals, and training material. This will help them to analyze their problems and opt for solutions aiming at improving their standard of living. The center will provide equal opportunities to all individuals of the community; men, women, the youth. The center will maintain adequate pool of information and knowledge so as to enable the community people to embark on the path of collective progress.

 Aims & Objectives of the Community Learning Center 

• To provide learning opportunities to the people of the community from non-formal institution.
• To create communication linkages between the community and line departments for exchange of information so that people may benefit from facilities offered by departments. Agriculture Department propagates information about crops, fertilizer and pesticides that can serve as a linkage.
• To prepare informative literature for the local community according to their needs, problems and cultural norms.
• To arrange training programmes for imparting skills to the local community and rapid transmission of information to them.
• To provide reading material for the process of continuing education.
• To initiate planning for human development so that learning society may be established.
• To enable the community to sustain educational programmes on self-reliance basis.

Methods & Techniques of Establishing a CLC: Organizing a CLC is a kind of social engineering. It implies identifying core modernism, mobilizing the community and retaining the programme overtime. The plan of action suffers the following steps in this direction:

• To conduct a survey for selection of feasible area and venue.
• To select active members from the community and train them to run the community learning center.
• To form an active and dynamic group, which may include head of the village council, influential persons, teachers, students, volunteers, retired public servants, farmers, religious leaders, businessmen and women.
• To arrange meetings with the selected group and active members of the community.
• To select a venue for activities of the community learning center. This venue can be selected from a number of existing premises such as Namberdar's residence, a school, mosque, union council office, or and abandoned factory.

The local community can make available to the community learning center the following:

·         Furniture such as chairs, tables, cabinets and blackboard.

·        Detailed map of the area showing boundaries and important buildings such as the mosque, school, offices of government departments, historical places, residence of the local land lord and health center. The map may also show details such as mountains, rivers, canals, and dams.

·       Informative material and equipment such as newspapers, journals, textbooks, brochures, a radio set, notice board and pictorial literature.

·         Essential data about local community such as total population, number of housing units, number of children attending formal and non-formal schools, names of influential persons, important places, names of resource persons, professional classification of the people, knowledge and experience of intellectuals, historical background of literature, fruits and vegetables, herbs, traditional dishes and prominent persons such as sportsmen and artists.

·         Budget: Rs. 300000 supported by UNESCO initially new sustained and being funded by BLCC. In partnership with communities at Natt, Lahore , Kabirwala, Muzzafargarh, Hafizabad, Shujabad, Multan , Sialkot , Chakwal, Jampur.