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                                                                   EXHIBIT 99.09
                                      WIPRO
                                    BLOOMBERG
                                 APRIL 17, 2003

Male correspondent: Hello, is it Mr. Paul?

Vivek: Yes it is.

Male correspondent: Oh hi, hello. Let me just put you through .. you declared
your results today right.

Vivek: Sure.

Male correspondent: Okay, hold a second.

Lady participant: Alright, thanks very much. Wipro, India's second largest
software services company declared its annual results today, with a dip in net
profit by about 5%. Tell us are you disappointed by these numbers?

Vivek: Well clearly I think that this is what was lined with the internal
expectations. We are not happy to see earnings decline, but as you pointed out,
the chief factors contributing to that have been the adverse exchange rate
combined with a one time hit on acquisition cost as well as write offs we had to
take in our GE joint venture, Wipro-GE Medical Systems.

Lady participant: Going ahead, what are you seeing for the next business year?

Vivek: We give outlooks quarter by quarter and we continue to drive growth for
the next quarter. If you look at our overall growth profile, we had the last
quarter revenue growth of about 28%, what we are finding is that in a difficult
global economic environment we continue to see making good progress on the
revenue line in terms of gaining share and being able to bring more of the
offshore development services to more customers; however, in the face of the
economic decline, pricing pressures, and of course this rise in rupee continue
to create pressure on the margins.

Lady participant: what are the reasons for this decline, do you see any
indications as far as technology budgets go, are they expanding?

Vivek: I think that from our perspective, the way we view the technology
budgets, they are expanding, virtually every CIO who we speak with continues to
want to do more development in global delivery models, which benefit us. So, I
think that the technology spending budgets from our view point are continuing to
be strong, however, because many of these are spending patterns are coming

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specifically for the purpose of cost reduction, the pressure on pricing
continues to be strong.

Lady participant: The pressure of pricing there you said that you are expecting
$172 million in the next quarter, the pressure on pricing that you have
mentioned ...one way to beat it is cut the prices with locally developed
software by companies like Wipro, do you see this happening?

Vivek: Well, I think that as I mentioned earlier, the volume increases are
substantial. In the last year in terms of billed man months, we had the highest
growth ever, ever, so what that means is that for us the last year was the
biggest boom year despite a global downturn. So, I think that as I mentioned
earlier, in this environment we continue to see a rising growing interest in
getting software developed by companies like Wipro.

Lady participant: Thank you for your time.

Vivek: My pleasure.




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