Coal India gets a full time chief vigilance officer

S. K. Sadangi, has taken over as chief vigilance officer of Coal India on Wednesday. A 1988 batch Indian Railway Stores Service (IRSS) officer, Sadangi holds a B Tech degree from IIT and has completed his master’s in public policy from National University of Singapore and Kennedy School of Government, Harvard, USA.

Sadangi has experience in governance, vigilance & anti-corruption in various zones of Indian Railways, ports of Kolkata, Haldia, Chennai, Paradip, Kamarajar Port Limited, Andaman Lakshadweep Harbour Works and Indian Maritime University.

During his tenure as Vigilance Officer, Sadangi had conducted several investigations of organizational and national importance like irregularities in transportation of iron ore in railways, high value procurement contracts, recruitment process of railway staff, data transmission distortion in weighbridges installed in ports and sidings, affiliation process of maritime institutes etc.


He was also associated with the Justice M.B.Shah Commission of Enquiry, constituted by the centre to probe illegal mining of iron ore and manganese in large parts of the country.