Devi Das Thakur Pogali (9 December 1929 – 3 February 2007) was born at small Village Batroo, located on the bank of river of Pogal Paristan Valley.
[1] Thakur was born in the village of Batroo of Tehsil Pogal paristan (Ukhral), District Ramban, on 9 December 1929 in a Rajput family.
During the 1947 tribal invasion, he was a second-year student at Pratap College in Srinagar and trekked about 120 km by foot to reach Batroo.
During this period, he met Shadi Lal Kotwal, an advocate in Ramban, who persuaded him to take higher education in the field of law.
As a Chairman of the Northeast Council, he visited the headquarters of all member states and prepared comprehensive developmental plans after consulting the public representatives and general intelligentsia for balanced regional development.