Devri is a Nagar Parishad in Raisen district, Madhya Pradesh district in the Indianstate of Madhya Pradesh. Devri is the tehsil office headquarters under the district of Raisen district, Madhya Pradesh covering 150 villages under its jurisdiction.

Devri is an occupational term referring to someone who saws wood, particularly using a pit saw[1] either in a saw pit or with the log on trestles above ground or operates a sawmill. One such job is the occupation of someone who cuts lumber to length for the consumer market, a task now often done by end users or at lumber and home improvement stores.[2] The term is still widely used in the logging industry to refer to the operator of a chainsaw (or still in some limited applications, a crosscut saw) for harvesting, wildfire suppression, trail construction and related work. In the construction industry, the term is applied to the operator of a concrete saw.