1 / 7India's neighbor Sri Lanka Doctors stopped operating on the patient after the hospital ran out of medicines. There were two kilometers long queues for fuel at petrol pumps. Food has become so expensive that people are going to bed hungry. 2 / 7Milk is being sold here more expensive than petrol. According to Colombo News, a liter of milk costs Rs 2,000 in Sri Lanka now. Also, the price of a cup of tea has gone up to Rs 100 in Colombo, the capital of Sri Lanka. Chilies are being sold at Rs 700 per kg.3 / 7It costs Rs 200 per kg of potatoes. Fuel shortages have also affected power generation. Many cities are now experiencing 12 to 15-hour power outages. In such a scenario, India has given 1 billion to Sri Lanka.4 / 7Sri Lanka is indebted to many countries. Foreign exchange reserves fell more than 70 percent to 2.36 billion dollars in January, a steady decline. Due to the shortage of foreign exchange, most of the essential commodities, medicines, petrol, and diesel are imported from abroad.5 / 7According to a report released in the last few days, about 1,000 bakeries in the country have been shut down due to a shortage of cooking gas and electricity and the rest of the bakeries are not producing properly.6 / 7The January report said that between November 2021 and December 2021, food inflation in Sri Lanka rose by 15 percent in one month.7 / 7People have to buy a packet of bread for Rs 150. Not only that, the price of one kg of rice and sugar has reached Rs 290 per kg. At present people have to spend up to Rs 100 for a cup of tea.