The Bombay High Court on Monday said welfare schemes for the tribal population were only on paper, and sought to know from the Maharashtra government what steps it was taking to prevent deaths of children due to malnutrition in tribal regions of the state.

A division bench of Chief Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice G S Kulkarni said the welfare schemes are of no use if children are still dying of malnutrition in the state's Melghat region.