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Wipro names halls after its September 11 victims

Indian software giant Wipro Ltd, planning a solemn memorial on the anniversary of September 11 attacks, has named four halls in a sprawling campus after workers it lost in the tragedy, company officials said.

"In the Electronic City campus, we have named four of the training halls for each of these four employees," a Wipro spokesman told Reuters on Tuesday.

The sprawling campus is among the several sites the software service company has in Bangalore. About 4,000 of its 11,000 engineers work at the campus and hundreds at client sites abroad.

The four victims, Shreyas Ranganath, Hemanth Kumar Puttur, Shashikiran Kadaba and Deepika Kumar were working on the 97th floor of one of the World Trade Center towers in New York for a Wipro client at the time of the attack.

Indian newspapers said families of the victims had flown to New York to join the anniversary tribute to the victims of the attacks on the two WTC towers by hijacked airliners. About 3,000 people were killed in the attacks on New York and Washington.

For months, New York Stock Exchange-listed Wipro held on to hopes that the victims would be found alive after they were listed as missing, and declined to divulge family details, citing concerns on privacy.

"Indian Express" newspaper said on Tuesday that Kusuma Puttur, mother of 26-year-old victim Hemanth, still hoped her son was alive, though his family has received his belongings and compensation from the US government.

"I still feel he is alive and hope he will be there to receive us when we reach the country (US)," the newspaper quoted the 55-year-old wife of a tailor as saying before she left to join the anniversary memorials.

Anand Puttur, whose family takes its surname from their small town near Mangalore, said his son had called a few days before his presumed death and promised to take them along for a holiday.

"Now we are going there, me and my wife, not to join him for a holiday, but to pay homage to him," he said.

"They (victims) were heroes who lost their lives to terrorism. They will be remembered as heroes," the newspaper quoted D S Ranganath, father of 25-year-old Shreyas as saying.

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