U. Sagayam

Quick Facts

Full Name	U. Sagayam
Occupation	Civil Servant
Date Of Birth	Jul 3, 1962(1962-07-03)
Age	62
Birthplace	Pudukkottai
Country	India
Birth City	Tamil Nadu
Horoscope	Cancer

U. Sagayam Biography

U. Sagayam is one of the most popular and richest Civil Servant who was born on July 3, 1962 in Pudukkottai, Tamil Nadu, India.

In 1991, he started his career as Tamil Nadu Civil Service officer, as a sub- divisional magistrate in the district of Ootacamund. In Ooty, Sagayam became embroiled in a dispute with the District Collector, whom he accused of favouritism toward the operators of large tea estates. Sagayam was relieved of his charges and transferred to another.

By 2000, Sagayam was an Additional District Magistrate in Kanchipuram. There, he closed the Pepsi bottling plant and forbade the sale of its output after dirt was found in several bottles. He also took on the so-called “sand mafia”, responsible for unauthorized mining of sand from the bed of the Palar River, a practice that increases erosion and the incidence of flooding. Sagayam ordered a halt to dredging, and declined to rescind his order despite threats of physical violence.

U. Sagayam Net Worth

U. Sagayam is one of the richest Civil Servant from India. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, U. Sagayam 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Sagayam joined the Central Secretariat Service in 1989 after qualifying through the Civil Services Examination. After getting inducted, training and then after working for 7 months in New Delhi, Sagayam voluntary resigned from the Central Secretariat Service. He later took the Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission exams and was appointed in the Tamil Nadu State Civil Service. After attaining seniority in the service, he was promoted to Indian Administrative Service in 2001 batch.

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Who is U. Sagayam Dating?

According to our records, U. Sagayam married to Vimala Sagayam. As of December 1, 2023, U. Sagayam’s is not dating anyone.

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Sagayam, whose office door bears a sign reading “Reject bribes, hold your head high” (in Tamil, Lanjam thavirtthu, nenjam nimirtthu), repeatedly antagonized influential politicians and their supporters in Tamil Nadu. In 2011, he was appointed to oversee state elections in the Madurai District; his strict enforcement of the laws against vote-buying played a role in the change of state government. Beginning in 2012, his investigation of complaints of illegal granite-mining in the Madurai area led to charges against a number of politicians and businesses, including a mining company founded by a scion of one of Madurai’s most influential political families.

Facts & Trivia

Zoltan Ranked on the list of most popular Civil Servant. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in India. U. Sagayam celebrates birthday on July 3 of every year.

Sagayam’s May 2012 report accused several senior officials of collusion with illegal granite miners, and suggested that losses to the state from illegal mining amounted to at least Rs 16,000 crore (Rs 160 billion), and possibly twice that. Four days later, he was transferred from his position as district collector to a post as managing director of Co-optex, a handloom weavers’ cooperative in Chennai.