Sri Lankan Energy and Electricity Minister Kanchana Wijesekera announced restrictions on fuel imports for the next 12 months; Due to a severe shortage of foreign exchange, this comes at a time when the new government is trying to find a way out of a crushing economic crisis.

In this context, Singapore’s Channel News Asia Radio stated that “The quota system is one of the first steps that the new President of Sri Lanka, Ranil Wickremesinghe, who was elected President of Sri Lanka on 21 July, will take to replace the former President. Gotabaya Rajapaksa – to mitigate the effects of the crisis.”

Sri Lanka reopened schools on Monday after severe fuel shortages and political unrest forced them to close for nearly a month. Despite this, the Sri Lankan government, in a circular issued on Sunday, asked public sector workers to continue working from home for another month.