Students at civic-run schools are now set to get lessons about banking and stock exchange. The move comes as part of the BMC’s Financial Literacy Programme which will introduce lessons on finances, banking, etc for Stds VIII and IX from the 2022-23 academic year. In a bid to facilitate these classes, the civic body has tied up with the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) Institute to train the school teachers. 

The BMC has, with the help of experts from the BSE institute, also put together two books designed for Std VIII and IX. Confirming the development, Joint Municipal Commissioner (Education I/C) Ajit Kumbhar said, “To make this Financial Literacy Programme a success, we got together experts from BSE and officials from BMC having a strong background in finance and economics to design and devise the curriculum which will be parallel to their regular curriculum.”