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Place of Birth: Pudukkottai, Tamil Nadu, India
About U. Sagayam
- Ubagarampillai Sagayam, is an Indian civil servant who currently serves as Vice Chairman of Science City Chennai.
- He is an IAS officer in the Tamil Nadu cadre, noted for his anti-corruption activities. 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. Sagayam efforts to eliminate corruption reportedly led to his being transferred for 25 times in the first 27 years of his career.
- They have also won him a reputation for probity; in the words of a Daily News and Analysis correspondent, "The common man's collector has become the hero of the local folklore".
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