Singh, who completes his five-year term as managing director and CEO next month, took home a record Rs 1.8 crore in fiscal 2019-20 (April 2019 to March 2020)
In comparison, Infosys' CEO Salil Parekh drew a pay package of $6.15 million (around Rs 40 crore) in the last financial year, a rise of 27 per cent over the previous fiscal.
Chief executives of FTSE-100-listed companies earn 117 times the average annual salary, the High Pay Centre and the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development estimate
Corporate chiefs have seen their earnings rise at an annualised 18.3% against net profit growth of 13% over the past three years, while overall salaries have gone up 10%