The Goa Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary education (GBSHSE) has decided to delete a lesson based on Russian tennis star Maria Sharapova from the next edition of a school textbook.
The NCERT Class IX English textbook features a chapter on Ms. Sharapova. After the International Tennis Federation placed Ms. Sharapova under suspension for two years for her use of prohibited drug meldonium, Hindu right-wing outfit Hindu Janajagruti Samiti (HJS) and some parents’ associations had asked the GBSHSE and the NCERT to remove the chapter.
The GBSHSE sent a circular to all schools in the State on July 21 on the deletion of the chapter.
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The GBSHSE has also instructed the schools that for this academic year, while teaching the said lesson, stress must be given on moral values, the ill-effects of choosing a wrong path and the need to imbibe good values to create an ideal nation.