BALAGARH, 4 JULY: Hundreds of people in the Balagarh block of Hooghly, whose villages are close to the river Hooghly, have been having sleepless nights ever since the river started eroding its embankments. Mr Khudiram Das (70), a resident of Sundarpur village in Somra I gram panchayat, said they have seen the embankment eroded by the river earlier.