Vol. 6, Issue 2, Part A (2020)

Abstract
The problem of socio-economic transformation of scheduled castes has been a great challenge in India. The complexity of the problem is due to the fact that this vast multitude has been subjected to indignity and stigma of untouchability, as well as, other problems resulting out of its low socio-economic status. The perpetual existence of the most wretched conditions of scheduled castes, more so in a country widely acclaimed as governed by the principles of parliamentary democracy, secularism and socialist pattern of development, raises crucial questions pertaining to the nature of efforts made to ameliorate the conditions of scheduled castes.