With a view to bring together the concerned stakeholders from the Government, Industry & Academia for deliberations on the role of standards in value creation for end user, customer and chemicals industry, CII organised a one-day seminar on ‘Enhancing Performance & Safety: Standards for a Better India’ (under the theme ‘Chemistry Everywhere’) on 2 Sep 2014 at New Delhi. Following is a Special Report on the seminar published by Chemical Weekly on 23 Sep 2014.