India, Sept. 25 -- Wipro founder and chairman Azim Premji has declined Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah's request to allow public vehicles to pass through the company's Sarjapur campus, but offered support for a long-term, expert-led solution to Bengaluru's traffic congestion.

In a letter to the chief minister, Premji stated that the campus's status as a Special Economic Zone (SEZ) renders it unsuitable for a public thoroughfare.

He added that contractual conditions governing the SEZ mandate "stringent, non-negotiable access control norms" and stressed that opening the campus would not be a "sustainable, long-term solution."

"The problem's complexity, stemming from multiple factors, suggests that there is unlikely to be a single p...