FICCI CASCADE believes that awareness and outreach is an essential element in building a proactive strategy to curb counterfeiting and smuggling. With this view, FICCI CASCADE is organising a seminar on ‘Combating Counterfeiting and Smuggling – An Imperative to Accelerate Economic Development’. The objective of this seminar is to focus on spreading awareness and enabling a dialogue between the stakeholders on the alarming magnitude of smuggling and counterfeiting and exterminating this demon from the society. There is a need for consumers to demand their right of genuine and authentic products; the seminar aims to awake the consumers on this menace.