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Against the background of inadequate southwest monsoon rains in Karnataka, the Chief Minister wrote to Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar about the strict parameters prescribed in the updated Drought Management Manual 2016 for promulgation in the 2020 drought caused by state governments.

"In the current southwest monsoon season, Karnataka received 234 mm of rainfall against the normal rainfall of 336 mm, a deficit of 34 percent. This was also due to late monsoon and a deficit of 56 percent in June. Weak monsoon," Siddaramaiah. said, adding that during this season, the distribution and intensity of precipitation was uneven.