Devi Das Thakur
Indian politician
Devi Das Thakur (9 December 1929 – 3 February 2007) was born at small Village Batroo, district Ramban. He was eminent Constitutional Jurist and Practiced Law in the Jammu and Kashmir High Court and also in Supreme Court of India. He also served as Finance and Planning Minister during 1975 to 1982, Deputy Chief Minister during 1984 to 1986 and Governor of Assam and Arunachal Pradesh in the year 1990. former Governor of Assam.
Early life
Thakur was born in the village of Batroo of Tehsil Pogal Paristan (Ukhral), District Ramban, on 9 December 1929 in a Rajput family. Thakur was most notable for his socio-economic amelioration works for the benefit of the people and land of Paristan, Pogal, and Guglidhaar.
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. He graduated in economics with a diploma in public administration; he became the first and only graduate in Pogal Paristan in 1950.
He was appointed a headmaster in Government High School, Pogal, in 1951. During this period, he met Shadi Lal Kotwal, an advocate in Ramban, who persuaded him to take higher education in the field of law.
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