DHAKA: The slum children has lagged behind to register their birth certificates as only 37 percent of them have the birth registration and 27 percent do not take registration fearing money expenditure.

Of the unregistered children, guardians of 41 percent do not understand the importance of the registration and 32 percent do not know how to register albeit the birth registration has been made mandatory since 2004.

These shocking data was revealed by two reports of development organization Save the Children International at a report releasing ceremony at Spectra Convention Center in city’s Gulshan area on Thursday.

The organization unveiled two reports titled “Trends of Urbanization and Impacts on Children”, and “Analysis on State of Five Selected Slums in Capital”.

Research organization The Nielsen manager AKM Fazlur Rahman and Save the Children program manager (adolescent development) Shahana Nazneen presented the “Trends of Urbanization and Impacts on Children”, and “Analysis on State of Five Selected Slums in Capital” respectively there.

The reports were conducted at Kallyanpur Pora Slum, Town Hall Camp at Mohammadpur, Rayerbazar Badhdhyabhumi Slum, Boubazar Slum and Balurmath Slum in city.

The reports findings said, “Eighty percent children at the slums are becoming victims of child marriage; of them, male kids’ rate is 46 percent while the female’s rate are almost double”.

Save the Children country director (CD) Michael McGrath, deputy country director Kazi Gias Uddin and its education director Elizabeth Pears, among others, were present at the function.

BDST: 1705 HRS MAY 22, 2014