Essay about Sri Lanka Economic Crisis On March 31st hundreds of protesters gathered outside Sri Lankan president Gotabaya Rajpaksha's residence in Colombo. Many in the crowd were holding posters with anti-government slogans and were chanting gotta go home in sinhala The protesters demanded that the government stepped down immediately for mishandling the country's economy a day after president raja paksha declared a state of emergency Sri Lanka is witnessing its worst economic crisis since independence, the island nation had announced a nationwide 13-hour daily powercut from March 31st there is an acute shortage of food, fuel, and cooking gas. Several hospitals have had to suspend routine surgeries as they have run out of life-saving medicines authorities had to cancel examinations for millions of students due to a shortage of paper During the first wave of the pandemic, thousands of Sri Lankan laborers working in several West Asian countries were forced to return home
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