Caste is an unfortunate social reality in India. It promotes the process of marginalization, stigmatization and alienation of deprived sections including SCs. Exclusion and discrimination adversely affects economic growth due to less than optimum use of labour and other resources. Correcting exclusion/discrimination therefore is an issue of both equity (and poverty reduction) and economic growth. Socio-economic sketch of schedule caste show the adverse consequence of past and present economic exclusion on the SC. This is reflected in high degree of inequality between them and other sections with respect to ownership of capital assets, employment and wages earning education and health situation and other indicators of human development.