As per Census-2011, the State of Punjab, has the highest percentage of Scheduled Caste population amongst all the States of the Country. 
The Scheduled Caste population in Punjab is 88.60 lac which is 31.94% of the total population (277.43 lac) of the State. Punjab accounts for 2.3% of the total population and 4.3% Scheduled Caste population of India.
The Scheduled Caste population is predominantly rural by residence. As per Census 2011, the majority of the SC people (73.33% ) live in the rural area, whereas, 26.67% SC people reside in the urban area of the State.
This is to say that in majority of the districts in Punjab have one third or more of their population belongs to the Scheduled Castes.Out of the total 12,168 inhabited villages in the State, 57 villages have 100% SC population and 4,799 villages (39.44%) have 40% or more SC pop'n
As per Census 2011, the literacy rate among SCs is 64.81% as compared to total literacy rate of 75.84% of the State and 73.00% of the Country as a whole. The female literacy rate of SCs at 58.39% in the State also lags behind that of total 70.73% of the State.
Out of the total SC population, SC labour force constitutes 35.88%, out of which, 79.20% and 20.80% are main and marginal workers respectively. The majority of this segment of society are agricultural labourers or are engaged in low wage and arduous occupation.
Now , As Punjab have nearly 1/3rd of its population belongs to SC's . But there economic entitlements are not ever near to the proportion of their population. Jats sikhs in various survey comes out be 33% which have nearly 95% of agricultural land.
