The State Child Welfare Committee is a mechanism set up by the government to devise child welfare activities across the state. This committee gained popularity when it introduced the "Mother's Cradle scheme. In this scheme, children who are unable to be looked after by their parents for various reasons can be put into the ‘Ammathottil’ (Mother’s cradle) of the Child Welfare Committees in all districts. The government will ensure all care for the child without caring to trace the parentage of the child.

Despite a few criticisms during its earlier stage, the scheme led to the elimination of forlorn children on the streets abandoned by their parents.

The incidents of children from the Child Welfare Committee reclaimed by parents, and the controversies and cases related to them, are part of

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