Bengaluru, Sept. 26 -- Wipro chairman Azim Premji has rejected a strange request from chief minister Siddaramaiah to open the company's Sarjapur campus -- owned by the company and a special economic zone to boot -- for limited public use to address traffic jams along the city's Outer Ring Road.

Instead, Premji has offered to underwrite a major share of a comprehensive transport study that is better suited to solving Bengaluru's worsening congestion.

In a letter dated September 24, responding to the CM's letter dated September 19, Premji acknowledged the urgency of the situation but stressed that allowing public vehicles through the company's Special Economic Zone campus was not possible. "Our contractual conditions mandate stringent, no...