Karnataka generated 1.46 crore days of employment in December 2018 after having maintained a consistent rise since June 2018.
The Centre has pending wage and materials bills of Rs 12,714 crore from all states, he said.
This year, Karnataka has Rs 1,146 crore (Rs 524 crore wages and Rs 622 crore material cost) payments pending.
“We’ve been telling the Centre to take this money and clear our bills.
Why are they making this complicated?
Our bills are already with them and we’re giving them the money, too,” Gowda said.
“This will not be enough to clear the outstanding bills and the Centre will have no money to run the scheme for the next two months of this financial year,” RDPR principal secretary L K Atheeq said.
In 2016, too, Karnataka paid Rs 2,175 crore from its own pocket when the Centre defaulted on payments for six months.
“We’re yet to get back Rs 913 crore,” Gowda said.
“So, the Centre still owes Karnataka Rs 2,059 crore, of which only Rs 117 crore has been released.

"In some areas‚ rivers flowed for the first time in four years – such as the Touws River‚" said Western Cape local government MEC Anton Bredell on Monday.
"The Gamka Dam in Beaufort West also saw some water in it for the first time in years."
However‚ most regions received less than 10mm of rain.
"The reality is that the drought remains in full effect and we continue to plan and manage accordingly‚" said Bredell.
He urged communities in the Karoo to use less water and to report and fix leaks swiftly.
"Municipalities like Beaufort West‚ Kannaland and Laingsburg will continue receiving assistance from the province‚ as has been the case over the past four years‚ but we must urge proper management of the water supply in these towns."
In the past two weeks‚ the provincial department of local government has delivered 34‚000 litres of bottled water to Beaufort West and 11‚000 litres to Laingsburg.
The current dam levels are as follows: Provincial dam average: 46.6% (up from 23.6% in 2018); Dams supplying Cape Town: 58.3% (up from 25.1%); Theewaterskloof Dam: 45.2% (up from 12.3%); Voëlvlei Dam; 73.2% (up from 17.6%); Berg River Dam: 81% (up from 52.4%); and Clanwilliam Dam: 50.6% (up from 14.6%).
Source: TMG Digital.

Almost 93 percent of Deschutes County is in extreme drought conditions, according to information released by the U.S. Drought Monitor, a mapping tool produced by a number of federal agencies.
One-hundred percent of the county is facing “abnormally dry” conditions, “moderate” and “severe drought,” U.S. Drought Monitor’s data released on Jan. 31shows.
Statewide, the outlook isn’t much better.
Nearly 75 percent of Oregon is in severe drought and 90 percent of the state is considered to be in moderate drought conditions—meaning 3.6 million people are living in some level of drought.
That includes Lincoln County on the wet Oregon coast, usually immune from low-water years.
Kathie Dello, associate director of the Oregon Climate Research Institute said in an Oregonlive story the reason for the drought isn’t complicated: we just aren’t getting the rain we’re used to.
"The number one priority and concern for us is water," Kevin Richards of the Fox Hollow Ranch in Madras said in a story in the Source last August.
"The amount of water dictates the crops that can be grown, how much can be grown and whether a farmer can grow a crop on every acre they own.
It influences every aspect of our farming operation.” According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, only one in 12 basins in Oregon used to measure water content in snow is where it should be as of Feb. 1.
The Hood, Sandy and Lower Deschutes Basins are only 49 percent of normal and the Upper Deschutes Basin is just 69 percent of normal.

If you ask just about anyone from another state, Oregon conjures up an image of gray skies, rainy days and damp forests.
But our reputation as a wet state doesn’t quite match what experts are seeing on the ground, as anyone from Oregon’s vast high desert areas will tell you.
Across the state, 90 percent of Oregon is considered to be in “moderate drought” by the U.S Drought Monitor, a mapping tool produced by a number of federal agencies.. Nearly 75 percent of the state is in “severe drought.” That means that 3.6 million of Oregon’s 4.1 million residents are living in some level of drought.
“We had a really dry 2018,” said Kathie Dello, associate director of the Oregon Climate Change Research Institute.
Only one of the 12 basins used to measure water content in snow is where it should be as of Feb. 1, according to the U.S Department of Agriculture.
The Willamette Basin is at 54 percent.
The snowpack in the Cascades isn’t just important for skiers and snowboarders.
The mass of frozen water acts as a slow-release reservoir that feeds the state’s lakes, rivers and streams throughout the summer as precipitation tapers off.
Drier and hotter summers are projected to become more common as Oregon’s climate continues to change, according to numerous recent reports.
Below you’ll find each county, roughly from driest to wettest, along with graphics showing how long drought conditions have persisted in that county.

The T&T Meteorological Service (Met Office) made the declaration in its Dry/Wet Spell Monitor and Outlook by end of March 2019, following significant rainfall deficit over the period November to December 2018.
Drying continued over the two-month period December 2018 to January 2019, with significant rainfall deficits ranging from extreme to exceptional dry conditions observed in its two-month Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) monitor, placing the country in a meteorological drought.
A meteorological drought occurs when a place receives significantly less rainfall than normal over a period of a few months or longer.
A meteorological drought event starts when the two month SPI value reaches -1.5 and continues over two overlapping two-month periods.
The drought ends when the SPI becomes positive again.
At Piarco, 68.3 percent less than the monthly average rainfall (151.6mm) was recorded for December, making December 2018 the second driest December at Piarco since in 73 years.
At Crown Point, 44.9 percent of the monthly average rainfall (124.3mm) was observed, making December 2018 the sixth driest December on record since 1969.
At Piarco, 76.2 percent less than the monthly average rainfall was recorded for January, making the month the fifth driest January in 73 years.
At Crown Point, a new record was set for January with 3.0 mm of rainfall recorded.
At 95.7 percent less than average, January 2019 is now the driest January in 50 years at Crown Point.

The parched Karoo received some relief thanks to rain at the weekend – but the drought is by no means broken.
"In some areas, rivers flowed for the first time in four years – such as the Touws River," said Western Cape local government MEC Anton Bredell on Monday.
"The Gamka Dam in Beaufort West also saw some water in it for the first time in years."
However, most regions received less than 10mm of rain.
"The reality is that the drought remains in full effect and we continue to plan and manage accordingly," said Bredell.
He urged communities in the Karoo to use less water and to report and fix leaks swiftly.
"Municipalities like Beaufort West, Kannaland and Laingsburg will continue receiving assistance from the province, as has been the case over the past four years, but we must urge proper management of the water supply in these towns."
In the past two weeks, the provincial department of local government has delivered 34,000 litres of bottled water to Beaufort West and 11,000 litres to Laingsburg.
The current dam levels are as follows: Provincial dam average: 46.6% (up from 23.6% in 2018); Dams supplying Cape Town: 58.3% (up from 25.1%); Theewaterskloof Dam: 45.2% (up from 12.3%); Voëlvlei Dam; 73.2% (up from 17.6%); Berg River Dam: 81% (up from 52.4%); and Clanwilliam Dam: 50.6% (up from 14.6%).

Marthina Mutanga The drought situation in Namibia is fast becoming a disaster of epic proportions and in this regard the National Agriculture Union along with the Namibia Emerging Commercial Farmers Union asked for an urgent meeting with the Minister of Agriculture, Water and Forestry to discuss critical interventions to assist farmers.
The two unions also jointly drafted a drought action plan with various possible solutions to assist that the feel must be implemented in order to assist struggling farmers which they plan to present to the agriculture minister.
Suggested supportive measures also include assistance by financial institutions that are requested to ease pressure on the cash flow management of producers.
Such measures could include the extension of payments on subsidised loans.
The organisation further stated that the severity of the 2019 drought will be far worse than previously experienced due to the fact that no significant rain has fallen in the country and very little feed is available locally to keep animals on farms alive.
Large parts of Namibia has been experiencing severe drought conditions since as far back as 2013 and animals are currently dying in large numbers leaving many farmers skirting financial ruin as all reserve grazing grounds have been decimated.
The exhausted fields on farms and even government reserves will need a good rainy season and lots of time to recover.
Besides the drought, the foot-and-mouth disease outbreak in South Africa resulted that prices for sheep and cattle farmers have dropped with more than 30 percent when compared to December 2018.
“Producers are thus in a “perfect storm situation” where livestock must urgently be removed from the veld and be fed only to be sold at much lower prices.
Price stability for slaughtering animals in the local market is critical and must be maintained for the next three months in order to enable producers to take decisions about preparing animals for processing at abattoirs.” The NAU said in their statement that it is of utmost importance that export of livestock must not be limited in order to enable producers to market their animals as soon as possible.

The area around Walgett in regional NSW is in a crippling water crisis and a million-dollar bore – which taxpayers have already paid for – it yet to be built.
North-west of Walgett is 10 big farming properties, who have all run out of water.
In 2016, in the small neighbouring town of Cumborah, taxpayers paid $946,000 to Walgett Shire Council to build a bore.
But three years after the money was handed over, the bore still hasn’t been dug.
And even when the bore is built, only the town’s residents can access it, not neighbouring farmers.
One of the families stuck in strife is Jamie and Gina Warden, who Ben has consistently spoken to about the plight faced by farmers in drought.
Gina tells Ben there’s no excuse.
“We’re taxpayers and we pay that money and the money was allocated for that purpose three years ago.
“Get off your backsides – we’re in the middle of a drought – and give us some water.” “It’s time for this council to pull their finger out,” says Jamie.
“Floods, droughts, bushfires won’t break us, Ben, but bureaucracy will, so we need some help.”

And according to the Associated Press, they threaten people’s homes and the local infrastructure.
The ground is cracking open, according to the AP, thanks to a water crisis that has deepened as Tehran’s population has ballooned.
The region is in the midst of a three-decade-long drought and ongoing desertification.
According to a 2018 report from Circle of Blue, a nonprofit focused on water issues, that problem has been compounded as the city’s population has grown to close to 8.5 million.
Water pumped from underground aquifers has gotten saltier every year as the city has increasingly relied on these underground water sources as opposed to rainwater.
[10 Driest Places on Earth] As a result, land in the area is physically slumping in on itself.
A February study published in the journal Remote Sensing of Environment arrived at a similar number: 9.8 inches (25 cm), based on satellite measurements.
All that subsidence has cracked buildings and water pipes, opened holes in the drying earth, and caused miles-long fissures.
The problem is partly a result of international sanctions applied to the country since its revolution, the AP reported.
Iran has sought to produce enough food locally to feed all of its people in times of crisis, and this has over-stressed the water supply.

Three months after the government declared drought in Maharashtra, the Centre on Tuesday approved ₹4,714 crore towards mitigation measures under the National Disaster Response Fund (NDRF), much lower than the state’s demand of ₹7,962 crore.
Consequently, the state will have to pay the remaining ₹3,248 crore from its kitty, in addition to the ₹3,000 crore for the 318 revenue circles that are not eligible for the Centre’s compensation under NDRF norms.
The state declared drought in 151 tehsils on October 31 last year, in accordance with NDRF norms, and sought ₹7,103 crore towards damages to crops, ₹535 crore for providing fodder and ₹324 crore for water supply.
After the uproar by the Opposition and farmers’ organisations over affected villages being left out of the list, the state declared drought in 318 revenue circles.
Last week, the state announced the release of ₹2,900 crore from its coffers.
“Happy to share that the Centre has approved ₹4,714.28 assistance to drought-hit Maharashtra for kharif season in 2018-19,” Radha Mohan Singh, Union minister for agriculture, posted on Twitter.
State relief and rehabilitation minister Chandrakant Patil said, “This is the biggest amount approved by the Centre for any state towards drought assistance.
For the remaining amount, the state will continue follow-up with the Centre.
The state government is also ready to release funds from its kitty to help the farmers.” “We will be left with no option, but to spend from our resources, if the Centre doesn’t approve the additional funds for drought relief for 151 tehsils.
The amount goes over ₹6,000 crore as the state will also have to aid the 318 revenue circles,” said a senior officer, requesting anonymity.