Cash-strapped Sri Lanka has announced a two-week halt to all fuel sales except for essential services and appealed to the private sector to work from home as it ran out of supplies. Sri Lanka fuel crisis is a worrisome situation.
Debt-ridden Sri Lankan government has announced a two-week halt to all fuel sales except for necessary services in the country. It has also appealed to the private sector employees to work from home as it is out of supplies. Sri Lankan high commissioner Milinda Moragoda called upon Union Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas Hardeep Singh Puri to discuss the adversity of the situation.
“High Commissioner Milinda Moragoda discussed urgent energy requirements of Sri Lanka with the Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas, and Housing and Urban Affairs of India Hardeep Singh Puri when he met the latter in New Delhi today,” Sri Lankan High Commission in the national capital, New Delhi, tweeted.
“From midnight today, no fuel will be sold except for essential services like the health sector, because we want to conserve the little reserves we have,” government spokesman Bandula Gunawardana said in a pre-recorded statement. He also apologized to consumers for the shortages: “We regret the inconvenience caused to the people.”
Sri Lanka fuel crisis is now going to be worse and the country is facing its worst economic crisis since gaining independence in 1948. It is not even able to finance even the most essential products, such as fuel, food, and medicines since the end of last year.
Moragoda had detailed the current Sri Lanka fuel crisis and its people are experiencing it due to the lack of gasoline, and he had appealed for a chance to secure petrol and diesel supplies that Sri Lanka is currently in dire need of. Since February, the bankrupt island nation in South Asia, with hardly any dollar reserves, has been reliant on India’s $500 million line of credit to pay for petroleum supplies. The last consignment, including 40,000 MT of diesel, landed in Colombo on June 16.
