Synopsis Education Administration is relatively a young social science. Conditions of life were simple and so was educational administration. Educational administration has suffered much for want of a well set theory of administration of its own. The contents of the courses in administration have consisted of description of practices the cautions, personal success stories lively anecdotes etc. The democratic theory of educational administration strikes at a harmonious balance between the extremities of centralised and decentralised types of educational administration. The need of the hour is to ensure that the educationists manage the affairs of education in a state. The national policy on education has accorded a very high priority to the systems of administration management and planning of education educational planning will need to be linked to manpower planning by setting up mechanisms for assessing the needs of the industry. Evolving a long term planning and management perspective of education and its integration with the country's development and manpower needs. The national seminar organised by national institute of educational planning and administration on planning and management aspects held in New Delhi explained this concept as human resource development seeks to improve the performance abilities.