evidence: The Susta we talk about today is situated towards the south-eastern part of Tribeni beyond the Narayani River with some 265 households and 3,133 people. The Nepal government’s existence is seen in the village as there is a health post with three staff, a primary school with seven teachers, a police post under the command of a sub-inspector and a border outpost of the Armed Police Force under the command of an inspector. Till recently, there were 337 houses but some 112 had to leave the village and migrate to India with the beginning of the ‘Save Susta’ movement. According to Gopal Gurung, Chairperson of the Save Susta Movement, people who worked as ‘informers’ for Indian agencies against the movement were chased away from the village. Some of them still have their land in Susta even if they have shifted their homes to the Indian side of the border. There are still some 70 Indian families residing in Susta, but not as citizens with land but as tenants or non-citizens. It is said that most are ‘anagarik’ who till others’ land and shear crops for survival.