The child stars of the Academy Award-winning film Slumdog Millionaire are at risk of losing their monthly stipend and trust fund if they don’t start attending school, a trustee for the fund said Thursday.

The announcement comes just months after both children were evicted from their shanty shacks in the wretched slums of India.

The Jai Ho Trust was established by the makers of 2008 comedy-drama to provide an education, living allowance and housing for the young stars, plucked from theslums of Mumbai. Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail, 11, is only showing up at school 37 percent of the time and Rubina Ali, 9, has only a 27 percent attendance rate.

The trustees have decided if Azharuddin and Rubina do not get their attendance above 70 percent before the end of this school year, they will lose their monthly stipend of about $120. If the kids fail to graduate, they will forfeit a lump sum payment set aside by the filmmakers to help the children get a start in life once they turn 18.

“It’s pathetic,” Noshir Dadrawala, who helps administer the trust and blames the kids’ busy schedule for their chronic truancy. “They are constantly going to Paris and Cochin and Chennai,” he said. “That’s fine, but go over the weekend, not at the sacrifice of school.”