Fuel crisis deepens in Sri Lanka

Colombo: In the midst of the economic crisis in Sri Lanka, the situation has worsened due to lack of fuel. The closure of public sector offices and schools has been announced in the country from next week. Government employees will also not come to office from Monday. Actually, the government has taken this big decision due to severe shortage of fuel.

Sri Lanka’s Ministry of Education has asked teachers of all government and private schools in the capital Colombo to start online classes from next week. Sri Lanka is under intense pressure to get foreign exchange for imports as the current fuel stock is depleting rapidly.

The Ministry of Public Administration has issued an order asking all government institutions and local councils to keep offices closed from Monday. Because there is a huge shortage of petrol and diesel in the country. It was said in this order that this decision has been taken due to the acute shortage in the supply of fuel, difficulty in using public transport and private vehicles. However, relief has been given to the employee associated with the health service.

Let us tell you that Sri Lanka is going through the worst economic crisis since its independence in 1948. The situation is that the government does not have money left to import essential commodities. There are long queues of vehicles at petrol pumps across the country and people are protesting due to non-supply of fuel.

Apart from this, citizens in Sri Lanka are also facing huge power cuts. At present, there is a severe shortage of foreign exchange, oil, food items and essential medicines in Sri Lanka, due to which the economy has been badly damaged.

In April last year, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa banned the import of chemical and fertilizer products. Due to which the crops got damaged in the fields and there was a shortage of food grains. The government had to import food and drink from other countries and inflation increased.