All municipal schools in Mumbai and its suburbs will teach the Bhagwad Gita to students in order to make them more focused, boost their morale and impart them knowledge about spiritualism, a civic official has said.

"We shall impart the knowledge of 'Bhagwad Gita' to students to make them independent and sharpen their power in decision making," Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai's (MCGM) Deputy Municipal Commissioner Ramdas Bhausaheb said.

He was speaking at a prize distribution function of 'Gita Champions League' contest, organised by International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) in Mumbai on March 15.

Ramdas said MCGM has 1,200 schools with a total strength of 4,78,000 students where the corporation spends over Rs 3,500 crore every year to impart free education to children in nine regional languages, a press release here said.