Dandakaranya Samachar, the spokesman of Dandakaranya, the tribal populated area of 80000 Sq. miles comprising of undivided Bastar district of Madhya Pradesh, Koraput & Kalahandi district of Orissa, Khambam district of Andhra Pradesh and Chandrapur district of Maharashtra, was established at Jagdalpur the district headquarter of Bastar in then Madhya Pradesh (now Chhattisgarh) on 12thJanuary 1959 by Mr.Tushar Kanti Bose the Publisher, Printer and Proprietor of the newspaper.That time it was a bilingual weekly published in Hindi, English and Halbi ( the local dialect of Bastar ) which was an unique production of its type, most popular among the people woking in different projects of Dandakaranya Development Authority and DBK Railway in the area besides the other areas of the state and the country.