Radheshyam Mopalwar, IAS (Retd),
Vice-Chairman & Managing Director,
Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation.
Shri Radheshyam Mopalwar is a senior IAS officer who retired in 2018. He is reappointed by the Government of Maharashtra as VC&MD of the MSRDC with a view to complete the flagship project of the Government, viz;- Samruddhi Mahamarg, a 701 KM Expressway connecting Nagpur to Mumbai. He has vast administrative experience behind him and had executed prestigious projects like Gur-ta-Gaddi at Nanded between 2005-09 when he was Collector of the Nanded District. His role in revival of the Nanded District Central Cooperative Bank as well as in development of Nanded City is highly appreciated.
He is known for vision building and skills to execute complex projects. He has great communication skills and contacts across wide spectrum of opinion makers and social activists as he himself was an activist with liberal social causes before joining the Government of India in IRS in 1982 and as Dy Collector in Maharashtra in 1983.
He has passion to contribute in policy making and furthering the welfare of weaker sections of society. His tenure as Director of Groundwater Surveys and Development Agency is widely remembered for his contribution to the introduction of Groundwater management and for creating first draft of the Groundwater Legislation which is now the extant law on groundwater. He was also the first Director of Information Technology. He was instrumental in setting up the Information Technology Department of the Govt of Maharashtra. His role in introducing computerisation in Mantralaya and across the Government offices in Maharashtra is widely recognised.