Wikipedia:S. Nagarajan

S. Nagarajan (Tamil: சீ. நாகராஜன்) is an Indian Administrative Service officer and IAS topper on 2005 batch of Union Public Service Commission, India. He is currently serving as Additional Commissioner at Department of Land Administration & Director of Entrepreneurship Development and Innovation Institute, Tamil Nadu.

Education
S. Nagarajan was born in 1979 at Tirunelveli District and studied at Chinmaya Vidyalaya. Later he graduated his engineering (Electrical and Electronics) from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Rajasthan. He belongs to 2005 batch of Indian Administrative Service and he topped with First rank in UPSC 2005 on his fourth attempt. Before he secured IAS posting, he was in Railway traffic service. He went to Harvard Kennedy School for his Master in public policy, business and government policy. He penned his IAS experience in his book Topper's Tip, which was released on 2007.

Career
He has served in various departments of Government of Tamil Nadu as Joint Commissioner in Land Administration Department, Director and CEO of Tamil Nadu E-Governance Agency, Additional Secretary in Health and Family welfare department, Additional director in Rural development and Panchayat Raj department, Board of directors in Tamil Nadu Industrial Investment Corporation Limited He has also served as district collector on election duty for Kanyakumari, Vellore, Theni, Madurai. In June 2019, when he was a collector of Madurai, he had cleared the appointments of more than 1,500 persons in Anganwadi centres across the Madurai district. On very next day he got a transfer from his designation, which was reported in major Media