The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) has announced its decision to cancel its agreement with Kaizen Engineering Systems Pvt Ltd which was to provide ticketing and smart card system for the Bus Rapid Transit System under a contract lasting seven years.

The city authorities were not satisfied with the performance of Kaizen. The comoany bagged the contract in February 2009 to operate 170 buses and 280 bus stations for seven years for the payment of Rs 153.18 crore and after a month the contract was reduced to include only 30 bus stations and 50 buses with a payment of Rs 74.11 crore.

Kaizen was not able to develop system for automatic fare collection, smart card, public information system, and vehicle tracking system in scheduled time and thus the AMC issued a termination letter to the company in December
2009.

Kaizen is operating 26 buses, 43 bus stations and the central control system while another 17 bus stations are run by GIPL. There is a lack of coordination between the two and AMC has decided to bring in another comoany.

AMC is now considering the Indo-Spanish consortium of Vayam Technologies and GMV of Spain for a six-year contract. The consortium will however have to prove its abilities in the first six months to run 116 buses and 150 bus stations.

Meanwhile, BRTS has developed some major crack ups in the city. At a section near the Blind People's Association a cave appeared on Wednesday and turned into an eight-feet-wide trench by Thursday morning due to a half a century old drainage line.