Developmental reporting is something, I feel, in todays times is becoming next to obsolete. One grabs a newspaper and finds probably very few stories that deal with issues on development like women, environment, power, children, etc. If we talk about environment, today most journalists , i presume, do not have the least bit of knowledge on the working relation between water, water conservation, rain water harvesting, soil, forest and various other entities of nature that are connected together and works in an environmental cycle. Mediamen today lack the essential understanding of all the aspects that leads to development. Even the coverage (or 'no-coverage') of developmental issues like land, etc are negligible. Issues on land are covered, in majority of cases, only if the state in question is Left ruled. Otherwise, national newspapers hardly have any mention of such stories.
I would just say that in the light of day, the present condition of developmental reporting in India is extrmely sad.