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Since the inception of human civilization, man has been working to make his life comfortable and in this process of development he is exploiting natural resources to benefit all segments of society equally as a democratic mandate of the government. India being a democratic country has started its first planned development regime in 1951 and completed 12 five years plan in 2017. Ideally, during these 70 years all segments should develop equally. But the reality is far-behind. Even today there is inequality, deprivations, unequal treatment in spite of being at top positions, there are some segments of society which are facing ill-treatment and also being ignored in the process of development. The paper is an attempt to describe the developmental discourse and review the development processes and role of scheduled in the process of development. The secondary data and some case studies have been used to highlight the role of development in emancipation of scheduled in Himachal Pradesh with special reference to Chamba district. The paper will further attempt to understand the process of legging behind of scheduled inspite of possessing political leadership and having very good economic position and good say in the job hierarchy. On the one hand they are being deprived off socially and on the other politically scheduled are being kept isolated.