IAS U Sagayam Age, Career, Biography

U Sagayam is a former Indian civil servant who formerly served as Vice Chairman of Science City in Chennai. He is the youngest from his family and belong to Perunchunai village in Tamil Nadu. He did his earlier schooling from the Tamil medium panchayat elementary school and then attended the higher secondary school in Ellapati. Then he went for PG in social work and law. He then cleared UPSC and joined Central Secretariat Service. He has been transferred 20 times, and he created the history of becoming the first IAS officer in Tamil Nadu. He had sealed the Pepsi Cola’s bottling plant in 2000 near Chennai when he found many dirty bottles to confiscating 5,000 subsidized domestic gas cylinders within 3 days in 2004.

He had faced a lot of transfers throughout his career and journey. He was in the group 1 officer of the state governement for Perunchunai in Pudukottai district. Later, U Sagayam IAS Officer known as a friend of the poor. As he started Uzhavan Unavagam (farmers’ foodcourt), poor farmers can sell traditional dishes. Further, he also helped in the rehabilitation of three great-grandchildren of freedom fighter V. O. Chidambaram. He uploaded all the details of his assets as Namakkal Collector on the district website. This action made him enter politics to cleanse the system.