Millions of schools in the Western province of Sri Lanka have been forced to postpone exams “indefinitely” as the country faces an acute shortage of paper, owing to the government’s lack of finances to import paper, a government official said on Friday. Priyantha Srilal Nonis, the Western province’s director of education, said that printers are unable to produce school test papers due to paper shortages and price hikes, causing students in certain classes to miss their final term exams, local newspaper Sinhala News reported. Officials claimed that such failure could result in over two-thirds of the country’s 4.5 million students missing term assessments, which are vital in evaluating the students’ qualifications to advance to the next grade at the end of the school year. “There are no textbooks either. The books should’ve been printed before January. They haven’t done their job,” Joseph Stalin, the Ceylon Teachers’ Union general secretary, told …