Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan toured flood-affected districts in Bihar (a densely populated state in northern India) on Wednesday, travelling by boat and tractor through submerged villages in Hajipur, Vaishali, Munger, and Bhagalpur alongside Chief Minister Samrat Choudhary. Record rises in the Ganga and other rivers have directly displaced around 50 lakh (five million) people, damaging homes, crops, and livestock across the state. Chouhan pledged that an inter-ministerial central team would be sent to conduct a full damage assessment, after which the federal government would release financial and material aid, assuring residents that "no affected family will be left without support."