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Citing the Wipro field being an “exclusive backstage property,” Wipro founder-chairman Azim Premji has declined Chief Minister Siddaramaiah’s petition to let constricted vehicular question done the company’s Sarjapur field successful Bengaluru.
In a letter, helium said that it is “an exclusive backstage spot owned by a listed company, not meant for nationalist thoroughfare.” He besides highlighted that the Sarjapur facility, being a Special Economic Zone (SEZ), is bound by contractual conditions that mandate “stringent, non-negotiable entree power norms for governance and compliance.”
According to him, nationalist transition done the field would not service arsenic a “sustainable, semipermanent solution.”
The letter, dated September 24, 2025, came successful effect to Mr. Siddaramaiah’s entreaty connected September 19 to research the anticipation of allowing constricted vehicular question done its field to assistance easiness postulation congestion connected the Outer Ring Road, Iblur junction.
A Bengaluru Traffic Police postulation simulation survey showed this would chopped down congestion by astir 38%. Mr. Siddaramaiah wrote to Mr. Premji astatine a clip erstwhile the State authorities has been nether unit implicit infrastructure gaps and terrible postulation congestion connected the Outer Ring Road (ORR), an contented that reportedly led a logistics exertion steadfast to displacement retired of the corridor.
In his reply, Mr. Premji acknowledged the gravity of Bengaluru’s postulation woes and praised the Chief Minister’s initiative. He wrote: “We sincerely admit your enactment for initiatives concerning captious contented of postulation congestion successful Bengaluru. As stated successful your letter, urgent and effectual measures are so required for the postulation situation, peculiarly on the Outer Ring Road, being an export oriented economical hub.”
At the aforesaid time, helium expressed reservations implicit opening the Sarjapur field to nationalist vehicles. “With respect to the circumstantial proposition of allowing nationalist vehicular question done our Sarjapur campus, we apprehend important legal, governance, and statutory challenges since it is an exclusive backstage spot owned by a listed institution not intended for nationalist thoroughfare,” Mr. Premji stated.
Moots survey by experts
Instead, Mr. Premji recommended a much broad approach, suggesting that the authorities committee “a technological survey led by an entity with world-class expertise successful municipality transport management”. He assured that Wipro would “underwrite a important information of the cost” of specified a study.
“Wipro nevertheless stands committed to spouse with the Government of Karnataka to find a lasting solution for Bengaluru’s mobility challenges. We judge a collaborative, data-driven attack volition output the astir impactful results for our city,” Mr. Premji concluded successful the letter.
