Chennai: Sri Lanka is facing its biggest economic crisis these days and people there are not able to get food and basic necessities. Due to the ongoing economic crisis in Sri Lanka, Sri Lankan Tamils reached Rameswaram in Tamil Nadu as refugees at around 4 am today. Since March 2022, 133 Sri Lankan Tamils have come to Dhanushkodi as refugees.

Among those who came to Rameshwaram from Sri Lanka are Jayamalini (50), her two sons Paturjan (26), Hamsigan (22) and daughter Patusika (19). They are residents of Trincomalee in Sri Lanka. They travelled by boat from Mannar, Sri Lanka and reached Rameswaram. Four Sri Lankan Tamils who had come to Rameswaram went to Mandapam Marine police station in an auto. Investigations conducted by the Mandapam Marine Police revealed that the four had come to Tamil Nadu as refugees in 2006 during the war in Sri Lanka. He said they stayed at the Mandapam camp since 2006 and returned to Sri Lanka in 2019. They have been taken to Mandapam Refugee Camp after questioning by central and state intelligence officials. With these four, the number of refugees who came to Tamil Nadu from Sri Lanka has now increased to 133.  

In Sri Lanka, which is facing an economic crisis, more than six million people have faced a food crisis. There has been an acute shortage of essential commodities like medicines, cooking gas, fuel and toilet paper, forcing Sri Lankans to wait in queues for hours outside shops to buy fuel and cooking gas. The World Food Program (WFP) said in a report that 6.3 million people or 28.3 per cent of the population in Sri Lanka have a food crisis.

Why was Sri Lanka ruined?

Let us tell you that in order to save petrol in Sri Lanka, the government has already closed schools and colleges. Along with this, government employees have been asked to work from home. The whole crisis started because of the burden of foreign debt. Sri Lanka's foreign exchange reserves reached the verge of exhaustion while paying the loan installments. It is being told that this is the biggest economic crisis in front of Sri Lanka after independence. India has been a major source of foreign aid this year for Sri Lanka, which is suffering financially.

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