00955pab a2200145 454500008004000000100001800040245007100058260000900129300001600138362001100154520054800165650004000713650002200753773003400775180718b2002   xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aD'Souza, J.B.  aGujarat: a civil service failure: how can credibility be restored?  c2002  ap.3492-493.  a24 Aug  aThe principal reason for administrative and police failure is the growing power that politicians, and ministers in particular, have assumed over civil and police officers directly and indirectly through encouragement and tolerance of inefficiency and misconduct, and by the means of punitive transfers of officials if they act against misbehaving politicians.  If the horrific events of the recent past in Gujarat are to be prevented, a sense of the responsibilities under the law should be restored among officials of the state. - Reproduced.  aCommunal violence - India - Gujarat  aCommunal violence  aEconomic and Political Weekly