Bengaluru, July 16 -- Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister G Parameshwara on Thursday said he has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking urgent intervention and special financial assistance for Karnataka, citing a severe rainfall deficit, an emerging drinking water crisis, and widespread losses to agriculture and rural livelihoods.

In a post on X, Parameshwara said the state had recorded a 42 per cent rainfall deficit in June and a further 34 per cent deficit in July, resulting in extensive crop losses, declining groundwater levels, reduced inflows into reservoirs and worsening drinking water shortages across rural and urban areas.

"In the backdrop of Karnataka facing a severe rainfall deficit, drinking water crisis, and serious imp...