Shri Vijay Singhal has taken up the charge of MSEDCL as Chairman and Managing Director on 1st February 2021. Prior to this appointment, he also worked in a capacity of Commissioner of the Thane Municipal Corporation and also as the Additional Commissioner of Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation. He belongs to the 1997 batch of IAS. He is B.Tech. (Gold Medalist) in Civil Engineering from IIT-Roorkee. He also possesses a degree of M.Tech in Building Science & Construction Management from IIT-Delhi.

                 Shri Vijay Singhal is the recipient of the most prestigious “Prime Minister Award for Excellence in Public Administration” at the hands of Hon’ble Prime Minister of India for “River Linking Project” in Jalgaon District in 2009. He has delivered a lecture on “Interlinking of rivers in Jalgaon district” during the 9th International River Symposium and International River Conference held at Brisbane, Australia. He was also invited to present his work on river linking at the State University of New York at Albany, USA and Pennsylvania University at Penn State, USA.

                 He was again honoured with ‘Prime Minister Award’ from Hon’ble Shri Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of India for making Mumbai City (M.C.G.M.) as ‘CLEANEST STATE CAPITAL IN INDIA’ under ‘SWACHCH BHARAT MISSION’. He is also the recipient of the ‘SILVER & BRONZE MEDAL’ from Hon’ble Chief Minister of Maharashtra for Implementation of Best e-Governance Project in Sugar Commissionerate while working as Commissioner of Sugar, Maharashtra State. He is also the recipient of ‘DIGITAL INDIA AWARD’ 2018 from Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad, Hon’ble Minister, Electronics and Information Technology, Govt. of India for “Outstanding Digital Initiative by Local Bodies” in M.C.G.M.