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
All you need to know about the National Population Register T he Union Cabinet has approved the updating of the National Population register or the NPR after a meeting was held as some states stopped working on it work on it the Census Commission has said the objective of the NPR is to create a comprehensive identity database of every usual citizen or resident of the country the database who will have demographic as well as biometric details the NPR exercise will be held between April and September 2020. In all states and union territories except Assam where the National Register of citizens exercise or the NCR I'm sorry NRC to identify illegal migrants has already been conducted the data for NPR was first collected in 2010 during the second term of UPA and along with the house listing phase of the census to 2011. The NPR data was first updated in 2015 with door-to-door service and digitization of the updated data is complete now in the next step the government