chennai the plan to implement a monorail network in the city chief minister j jayalalithaas pet project seems to be in trouble again none of the three companies bidding for the project has conformed to the required specifications while gammon is unwilling to give details of the technology to be used a precondition ilfs transportation network wants to withdraw the bid with just essel scomi left in the fray the bid may have to be called off on march 21 essel scomi gammon and ilfs transportation network entered the bidding process for request for qualification rfq on april 5 the government was to shortlist the qualifiers for the final tender request for proposal we could not shortlist any company as none of them met the governments criteria said a source just after submitting the bid on march 21 ilfs transportation network wanted to withdraw but was stopped from doing so they should have done it 24 hours earlier said the source then gammon refused to explain the technology to be used the company said they were willing to share the technological expertise only if they won the bid said the source government officials seem to make light of the fact that just three companies had entered the fray as only a few companies in the world had monorail technology we cannot expect more said an official union urban development ministry officials say private players cannot be expected to invest such large sums the model chosen for the project is not right no public transport is lucrative enough for private companies said prakash singh director of the mass rapid transit transport system wing in the ministry given the costs it not feasible for a city to have monorail it is better to go for brts bus rapid transit system he said in fact the government has restarted discussion for a brts in chennai