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title: 'Chitra Katha photo poster No. 24: East Pakistan tubewells (Bengali, Dacca)'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/chitra-katha-photo-poster-24-bengali-dacca-1957/
description: A Bengali-language photo page for USIS Dacca on a campaign to install tubewells for clean drinking water across East Pakistan.
section: Collection
---

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[![Chitra Katha photo poster No. 24: East Pakistan tubewells, 1957 US poster: A Bengali-language photo page for USIS Dacca](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/chitra-katha-photo-poster-24-bengali-dacca-1957.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/chitra-katha-photo-poster-24-bengali-dacca-1957.jpg)

# Chitra Katha photo poster No. 24: East Pakistan tubewells (Bengali, Dacca)

A Bengali-language photo page for USIS Dacca on a campaign to install tubewells for clean drinking water across East Pakistan. Photographs show villagers building bamboo scaffolds, driving pipe into the ground by hand, pumping out clay and watching. The text says the East Pakistan government plans 50,000 tubewells with U.S. international cooperation help. The tell is plain-folks: named-free villagers at manual work present the programme as a shared village effort.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/)

## Text on the object

Original (Bengali) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
চিত্র কথা

পূর্ব পাকিস্তানের সর্বত্র নলকূপ বসিয়ে বিশুদ্ধ পানি সরবরাহের অভিযান

[Bengali photo captions not transcribed in full]

Issue No. 24 Published weekly for U. S. I. S. Dacca by Jatiya Mudran.
Editor's Note :-Please Post in Public Place, such as School Room, Bulletin Board Etc.
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
Chitra Katha (Pictorial Story)

Campaign to supply pure water by installing tubewells throughout East Pakistan

[Bengali photo captions on the page not transcribed in full: the East Pakistan government, with the help of the U.S. international cooperation agency, plans to install 50,000 tubewells; photographs show pipe-driving with bamboo frames, hand clearing of clay and villagers helping.]

Issue No. 24 Published weekly for U. S. I. S. Dacca by Jatiya Mudran
Editor'sNote :-Please Post in Public Place, such as School Room, Bulletin Board Etc.
```

Only the masthead, headline and printed imprint lines are transcribed; the small Bengali photo captions and body columns are not transcribed in full.

[← SEATO poster No. 2, headquarters map (Urdu, Karachi)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/seato-poster-2-headquarters-map-urdu-karachi-1957/) [Chitra Katha photo poster No. 29: Pak-American farm youth exchange (Bengali, Dacca) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/chitra-katha-photo-poster-29-bengali-dacca-1957/)

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