Chief Minister DK Shivakumar met the Inter-Ministerial Central Team on October 3.
The state estimated losses of Rs 46,324.50 crore across 177 taluks.
It sought Rs 7,142.64 crore from the National Disaster Response Fund.
The request combines Rs 3,705.30 crore for 101 taluks and Rs 3,437.34 crore for 76 more.
The figures are the state government’s estimates.
Ground verification was continuing in 40 more taluks, according to LatestLY.
On September 23, Shivakumar wrote to the Prime Minister asking for Rs 1,852.65 crore, half of the Rs 3,705.30 crore memorandum, as interim assistance.
In that letter he warned that crop losses could exceed 40 lakh hectares, according to The South First.
He also asked the Centre to release the second instalment of its contribution to the State Disaster Response Fund in advance.
The interim funds would support input subsidies, drinking water, livestock protection and other relief measures.
The Union government’s central teams assess drought losses on the ground before the Centre decides on assistance from the NDRF.
A taluk is an administrative sub-division of a district, and Karnataka has more than 200 of them.
Kharif crops are those sown with the monsoon in June and July and harvested in the autumn.
The figures reported by ANI, LatestLY and others were presented as the state government’s estimates, not the central team’s findings.
The Karnataka government has estimated drought-related losses of Rs 46,324.50 crore across 177 affected taluks for the Kharif 2026 season.
It has sought Rs 7,142.64 crore from the Centre under the National Disaster Response Fund, or NDRF.
Chief Minister DK Shivakumar met the Centre’s Inter-Ministerial Central Team on Saturday, October 3, and presented the state’s memorandums.
The central team is led by Ajit Kumar Sahu, a Joint Secretary in the Union Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Ministry.
The assistance sought is made up of two requests: Rs 3,705.30 crore for 101 taluks and Rs 3,437.34 crore for 76 more taluks.
Drought (representative image), Tomas Castelazo, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0