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Synopsis Critical importance of the Development Communication (CD) in this particular context is obvious. CD is primarily communication for planned change. It is to reach unapproachable/unreachable mass of human through various means of communications for their development. It means more than just communicating information to the people. However, CD as a concept is yet to be fully internalised both by practitioners and researchers. This has yet to come out of the old paradigm in our country. The crucial task before us is to make the development efforts appropriate and thereby more effective, so that it will reach down to the heartland and world poverty. In this background CD has the immense potentiality. The CD is all about to inform, motivate and influence all sectors and levels of people. It is actually a process, not a technique, which is problem communication for promoting human development through education and by helping to reduce poverty, unemployment and social inequality. It obviously attaches an element of social commitment to the process of communication because of which development of population belong to all the cultural groups in the society is attained. Survey on literatures suggests that three categories of approaches have dominated the paradigm of communication and development since 1950s which are as: (a) the approach of viewing communication and development as a cause effect relationship; (b) the approach dealing primarily with what might be called cost-benefit analysis; and (c) the approach dealing primarily with infrastructure analysis. The CD which got headway only since late eighties can be seen as a social process designed to seek common understanding or consensus among all the participants of a development initiative. It is actually a challenge in communicating effectively for development. Method and media of communication should be used meaningfully and wisely to help meaning formation and in speeding up the process. It is also essential that the source of information be not only comprehensive but also credible. This point may seem very obvious, but it has often been overlooked. It may even more important than being equipped with sophisticated media. Moreover, the very direction of CD in India might have changed by the privatization of communication, rapid changes in communication technologies and increasing influence of the concept of social marketing. Hence, serious introspection and retrospection on this important and emerging domain as a whole is essentially needed. Socio-culturally constructed and value-laden scientific methods in research on the CD have to be pursued intensively and objectively.