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                                                                    Exhibit 99.9


BBC RADIO

INTERVIEW WITH SURESH SENAPATY, CHIEF FINANCE OFFICER, WIPRO LIMITED

CORRESPONDENT: Can you give break up of your performance reported today?

SURESH: Well, I think that results have been as we had targeted and budgeted for
in terms of the guidance because if you look at over all revenue delivered about
$195 million which is ahead of the guidance that we had given. In terms of
operating margin being in decline that was also guided for in the sense that we
had said that we will continue to invest in the S&M which we have done, we have
said that there are pricing pressures and the effect of that was taken, but the
counters that we have taken are

      a)    We have increased utilization by 3 percentage points therefore it
            has mitigated the margin decline by about 1.4%

      b)    We had some product sales and some termination fees and IP sales
            which are not uniform across every quarter which we had in Q4 but
            did not have it for Q1 impact of that was about 1.5%

      Net to Net there was a decline in the OM in the Global IT business by
      about 2.4%, which was in line with what sort of had been anticipated.

CORRESPONDENT: Do you think the general economic slow down has had an impact on
your performance? If not, what is the reason?

SURESH: Well economic slowdown is affecting Wipro and the other players in the
industry in terms of putting price pressures, now you know that the IT budgets
are really not going up, the same IT budget people are wanting more bang for the
buck, and therefore more and more offshoring is being driven from that concept,
and that is the reason, this is the third year consecutive where the US economy
has not done well and therefore pricing pressures are there. However, if you
look at the last quarter we have seen a little bit of tempering of this pricing
pressure and the way we are going ahead is that on the BPO side we are growing
the business faster as you have seen last quarter we did about $17.1 million
about 19% sequential growth and the $210 million guidance for the next quarter
does have the BPO services which has a sequential decent growth.

CORRESPONDENT: How have your acquisitions performed this quarter? Especially the
AMS one?

SURESH: We have made it profitable this quarter, last quarter we had an
acquisition of a financial securities practice called Wipro NerveWire. It has
posted Rs.100 million of losses. It will perhaps continue with losses for a few
quarters before we are able to get the value of the synergy and become
profitable.

CORRESPONDENT: What are the parameters that determine an acquisition?

SURESH: We have gone ahead with those acquisitions where we have sort of
experience and expertise in terms of people working from overseas. We had our
share of difficulties and easiness and low-hanging fruit benefit which has gone
through and after having seen the successes that we have achieved in case of
Wipro Spectramind and
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Utility practice, it gives us confidence that we can stay on track, go ahead
with more acquisitions to supplement our organic growth.

CORRESPONDENT: Do you see the competition from other Asian countries increasing
and eating into your pie?

SURESH: Well, I suppose that in the long term it could be. But as of now, the
impact has not been felt at all. Because of the advantages that Indian companies
have in terms of large mass of people who can speak good English, the quality
processes and the project management skills that Indian companies have in terms
of professionals that work for them. I suppose that it will take some time
before other countries pick up and Indian companies will have to do something
different to keep the competitive edge ahead.

CORRESPONDENT: How do you think Indian companies can keep up their lead?

SURESH: Well the different things would be

      a)    Efficient training

      b)    Significantly enhancing the quality processes

      c)    Going up the value chain

Thank you very much. Bye-Bye. Thank you.


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