Hota, P.C. creator text xu| 2007 continuing ng p.356-360. Most of the significant recommendations on civil service reforms in the past failed to yield desired result because the mindset of civil servants implementing these recommendations did not change. As a result most of the civil servants are looked down upon as a predatory group of power brokers. With such an unsavoury public perception, civil servants can hardly be relied upon as trustworthy faciliators in the context of globalisation and liberalisations. The best reform that any Commission can usher will be to make the bureaucracy duty conscious and service-oriented. - Reproduced. Civil service - India Globalization - India Liberalization - India Administrative reform - India Administrative reform Indian Journal of Public Administration 180718