NEW DELHI, June 7 -- As he took up a new post, the bureaucrat placed on his office door: "Reject bribes. Hold your head high." For crusading against corruption, the IAS officer has collided with powerful politicians and bureaucrats, causing him 25 transfers in 27 years.
After studying in the village government schools, Sagayam U got qualified in the Tamil Nadu Indian Administrative Service (IAS) of 2001 batch.
As the additional district magistrate in Kanchipuram, Sagayam sealed the Pepsi bottling plant since dirt was found in several bottles. He also took on the sand mafia of the Palar river bed. As the deputy commissioner of civil supplies in Chennai in 2004, Sagayam confiscated 5000 subsidized domestic gas cylinders that restaurants w...