SCHEDULED CASTE AND DEVELOPMENT POLICIES STRUCTURE AND PERFORMANCE IN MAHARASHTRA

The present study is concerned with Scheduled Caste (SC) include neobuddhist and its major focus on the development through the state and central governments with their policy implements .The Scheduled Castes Development Bureau, the Ministry implements Schedules Caste Sub-Plan (SCSP) which is an umbrella strategy to ensure flow of targeted financial and physical benefits from all the general sectors of development for the benefit of Scheduled Castes. Under the strategy, States are required to formulate and implement Special Component Plan (SCP) for Scheduled Castes as a part of their Annual Plans by earmarking resources. In most discussion of progress of scheduled castes attention is focused almost exclusively on the programme of the Central Government. Yet state Governments have a major responsibility in the field and also incur large expenditures on their own programme of scheduled caste welfare. At present 32 States /UTs having sizeable SC population are implementing Schedules Caste Sub-Plan. Scheduled Caste, Schedules Caste Sub-Plan (SCSP) Special Component Plan (SCP).