‘Tobacco, mobiles and booze are fast-moving duplicates’
Tobacco, mobile phones and alcoholic beverages are the three products, in that order, that figure in spurious/illicit trade the most, according to the FICCI Committee Against Smuggling and Counterfeiting Activities Destroying the Economy (CASCADE).
by FICCI as part of a nation-wide awareness campaign to highlight the growing menace of illegal trade activities in the district.
More than 150 students and consumers with candles in their hand and banners stating ‘Buy Genuine Not Smuggled’ participated in congregation in the city. Fr Titto Varghese, principal, Christ Nagar College and Savio Mathew, head FICCI Kerala State Council felicitated the campaign.
IGP Crime Branch S Sreejith was the chief guest. He congratulated FICCI CASCADE for taking the steps to enrol the youth in the fight against illegal trade such as smuggled and counterfeit goods. Sreejith said the activities involving illegal curbs economic independence and one must pledge to not use fake products. He said the fight against smuggling is a necessity in the larger interest of the nation’s economy.
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