The socio-economic development of the scheduled castes and their respectful integration with the mainstream and bringing them on par with the others is a constitutional responsibility and a national goal. Achieving this noble goal calls for effective planning and implementation of the programmes for the development of scheduled castes. The special component plan strategy now it is known as Scheduled Caste Component Plan (SCCP) is essentially a means of earmarking benefits to the scheduled castes in physical and financial terms in each sector of the state plan/Central plan. In this article an attempt is made to analyse the various dimensions of scheduled castes development with special reference to Scheduled Caste Component Plan approach under which scheduled castes of Kolhapur district of Maharashtra taking various benefits for improving their socio-economic status in society.