Poundras Fight State Encroachment in the Last Village of West Bengal No protest is small Events are taking place in the aftermath of cyclone Aila in the village of Samsernagar II in North 24 Parganas, West Bengal. The state government has acquired some 43 acres of land in this village in the Kalitatla panchayat to build concrete roads along the banks of the Kalindi river adjoining the Bangladesh border. The planned road in this area is nearly 650 metres long, directly affecting around 140 Dalit families of whom 90 live below the poverty line. They are marginal landholders who say the government acquired this land without intimating them, and is denying them fair compensation for encroaching on their land.