<p>IT czar and Wipro founder Azim Premji today said the IT city would have to be evacuated within next ten years due to water problems and in a lighter vein suggested throwing garbage in face of the person who throws it into a pond.<br /><br /></p>.<p>"Well it is an extremely critical problem ... Unless we address the water problem - in reality terms we have to evacuate Bengaluru within next ten years. It is as serious as that in our major cities," Premji said while responding to a question from school children on water problem during 'Wipro Earthian 2014' programme.<br /><br />Asked why cities suffer from acute water problems despite an educated population, Premji said, "People of the city are educated on wrong things," sending the audience into peels of laughter.<br /><br />When asked how to stop someone who throws garbage into the pond, Premji, in a humorous vein, said "You tell them not to do it. When you see people throwing garbage into your pond, pick that up and throw it on him."<br /><br />Asked what should be done to get results out of meetings held on this issue of climate change, Premji said a person who is attending such conference should be empowered and given the authority to say yes or no.<br /><br />"We should empower a person who is attending such conferences. In many of the conferences we attend, we are not giving a person authority to say or no - This rips the whole issue and bring things back from where we started," he stated.<br />Asked how to overcome the problem of over-population, Premji said educating girl child is the best solution to put a stop to it.<br /><br />"The best control of overpopulation comes from educating the girl child because when she grows up she is much more conscious of a smaller family," he said.<br /><br />"The girl child is conscious of a family she can look after well, not creating a family which is something too large and unmanageable," Premji said.<br /><br />Corroborating his point, Premji said the population growth rate of Kerala and Tamil Nadu was the lowest in the country because of the high literacy among the girl child.</p>
<p>IT czar and Wipro founder Azim Premji today said the IT city would have to be evacuated within next ten years due to water problems and in a lighter vein suggested throwing garbage in face of the person who throws it into a pond.<br /><br /></p>.<p>"Well it is an extremely critical problem ... Unless we address the water problem - in reality terms we have to evacuate Bengaluru within next ten years. It is as serious as that in our major cities," Premji said while responding to a question from school children on water problem during 'Wipro Earthian 2014' programme.<br /><br />Asked why cities suffer from acute water problems despite an educated population, Premji said, "People of the city are educated on wrong things," sending the audience into peels of laughter.<br /><br />When asked how to stop someone who throws garbage into the pond, Premji, in a humorous vein, said "You tell them not to do it. When you see people throwing garbage into your pond, pick that up and throw it on him."<br /><br />Asked what should be done to get results out of meetings held on this issue of climate change, Premji said a person who is attending such conference should be empowered and given the authority to say yes or no.<br /><br />"We should empower a person who is attending such conferences. In many of the conferences we attend, we are not giving a person authority to say or no - This rips the whole issue and bring things back from where we started," he stated.<br />Asked how to overcome the problem of over-population, Premji said educating girl child is the best solution to put a stop to it.<br /><br />"The best control of overpopulation comes from educating the girl child because when she grows up she is much more conscious of a smaller family," he said.<br /><br />"The girl child is conscious of a family she can look after well, not creating a family which is something too large and unmanageable," Premji said.<br /><br />Corroborating his point, Premji said the population growth rate of Kerala and Tamil Nadu was the lowest in the country because of the high literacy among the girl child.</p>