Colombo: The Sri Lankan government has announced that all schools will be closed next week amid a severe financial crisis. Local media reported that the government had ordered the closure of all government-recognized private schools in Colombo city limits and schools in other major cities in other provinces. It is learned that the power crisis has led to the closure of schools. The Sri Lankan Ministry of Education has announced that schools will be closed following the incident, the Daily Mirror reported. Nihal Ranasinghe, Secretary, Ministry of Education, Sri Lanka, has directed schools to conduct online classes.
The Daily Mirror quoted Nihal Ranasinghe as saying that the Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka had assured that there would be no power cut from 8 am to 1 pm to facilitate online classes on weekdays. Sri Lanka has been going through an unprecedented economic crisis since independence in 1948. Sri Lanka has gone through a major upheaval following the economic crisis. Mahinda Rajapaksa, the brother of President Gotabhaya Rajapaksa, has resigned as Prime Minister due to political instability. Ranil then appointed Wickremesinghe as the Prime Minister of the country.
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Meanwhile, Sri Lanka is facing severe food and fuel shortages. Lack of basic raw materials for production, depreciation of the currency, lack of foreign reserve currency and failure to meet international debt have led to the crisis in Sri Lanka. The financial crisis has hit food security, agriculture, livelihoods and health services hard. A top UN official says 22 percent of Sri Lanka’s population (4.9 million people) are starving. The recession was caused by a shortage of foreign exchange due to the decline in tourism during the Kovid epidemic and reckless economic policies such as the government’s move to ban fertilizers as part of an effort to make Sri Lanka an organic farming region.
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