Now we will focus on the children belonging to scheduled castes and scheduled tribes. Their group and their special educational needs are required to be studied separately because the reasons their educational backwardnesds are We need to understand the reason for inequality in educational development Of these groups and the role of teachers and education in discouraging the discriminations against these groups. Students from Scheduled Castes The term scheduled castes refers to those castes in India which are considered untouchables since ages because they are involved in occupations like cleaning, sweeping, shoe making etc. This term 'scheduled castes' is an expression taken from our Indian Constitution which gives a list of castes which are socially and economically backward and deprived and thus need special measures for their upliftment. The reason for the pathetic condition of these castes has been the discrimination against them since ages due to their 'dirty. occupation. ()n olden times these castes were not permitted to use public amenities like tanks, rivers etc. and were prohibited from going 10 temples and receive education. This further deteriorated their condition and nibbed all chances Of their mobility to Other more respected jobs. Various documents of education like National Policy of Education, 1986 and Programme of Action (POA- 92) spell out the provisions and schemes that have