Pune, October 27, 2025: Finolex Industries Limited and its CSR arm, Mukul Madhav Foundation (MMF), have successfully completed the fifth edition of their flagship ‘Give with Dignity™’ campaign. What began as a pandemic relief effort in 2020 has grown into a nationwide movement of hope.
Since 2020, Team MMF and Team Finolex have stepped away from traditional festive gifting and channelled those resources toward the Give with Dignity™ initiative, directing funds to communities that are often overlooked. Through this effort, MMF and Finolex reach underserved and vulnerable communities, including rickshaw drivers, daily wage earners, people with disabilities, farm workers, and transgender and tribal communities across India.
MMF partners with self-help groups, local MSMEs, and women entrepreneurs to source, assemble, and distribute ration, festive, and hygiene kits. This initiative not only supports livelihoods but also strengthens local communities through the philosophy of “Buy Local, Give Local.” Each kit is regionally crafted with ingredients of nutritional value, and the diyas are handcrafted by people with disabilities, ensuring that the act of giving also sustains a chain of earning. In its fifth year, 10,000 kits have been distributed across 11 states — Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Goa, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, Kerala, Punjab, and West Bengal.
Since its inception in 2020, Give with Dignity™ has served over three lakh individuals across 24 states, with the support of corporates, donors, and NGOs. Between 2020 and 2025, through this initiative, the MMF team has distributed over 1,00,000 dignity kits, revived 120 self-help groups (SHGs) through procurement, and assisted 30 SHGs in registering as MSMEs. In its first edition, the campaign collaborated with 40 corporates, including six multinationals, and supported over 4,500 frontline workers, with support from 10 heads of state and dignitaries.
Speaking about the initiative, Mrs. Ritu Prakash Chhabria, Managing Trustee, Mukul Madhav Foundation, said: “Over the past five years, Diwali has not just been about distributing kits; we have been sharing hope, respect, and the warmth of human kindness. Our goal is to ensure that the festival’s joy reaches every corner of society — especially those who are often overlooked. This initiative embodies our belief that true celebration lies in uplifting others and spreading light where it is needed most. I thank the corporates, retail donors, and on-ground partners who came forward to join hands in the midst of the pandemic and displayed how collaboration can move mountains. I remain grateful to the Finolex Management and Board of Directors for continuing to support this vision that began during the pandemic in 2020. Each year, the campaign reminds us that compassion can spark change far beyond what we imagine, creating ripples of unity and dignity across communities.”
The ‘Give with Dignity™’ initiative represents a dream that took shape five years ago during the pandemic and continues to grow stronger with each edition. Together, Finolex Industries and its CSR partner Mukul Madhav Foundation remain committed to building resilient communities through sustained work in healthcare, education, water conservation, and social welfare — ensuring that the true spirit of giving continues to illuminate lives across India.
This is Finolex Pipes and Fittings:
We are India’s most trusted PVC pipes and fittings manufacturer. For 44 years, we have impacted the sanitation, plumbing and agricultural sectors with prudent investments across our value chain. Right from the sourcing of quality raw materials and resin production to manufacturing, storage, transport, sales, marketing, and even further downstream to include customer engagement.
To stay focused on making superior quality pipes and fittings, and nothing else but that, for forty-four years, is no mean feat. Aligning every decision, every action, every resource towards delivering quality pipes and fittings. To choose to do just this one thing and do it well. So that once our customers install our pipes, they completely forget about us. We take great pride in this dependable quality that has not only earned us ISO 9001:2015 certifications across plants, but also earned us the sincere affection of farmers, plumbers, homeowners, partners, associates and shareholders. They have all come to expect the world from us. Because that’s exactly what we expect from ourselves.
When we choose to diversify, it’s upstream with an open sea jetty to manage our raw materials, and downstream into last mile fulfillment. When we evolve, it has to be in our understanding of customer expectations and finding better machines and processes to meet those expectations. When we choose to expand, it is into newer markets, delivering our pipes and fittings to newer customers. And when we measure our growth, it is in reputation. The effect of which reflects in our bottom line, growing manifold in the last decade.
This quality focus is not just restricted to our products, but defines every aspect of our functioning. Whether quality support for our dealers, vendors and suppliers. Quality opportunities to our employees. Superior quality of life, education and health of the people we serve through our various social responsibility initiatives.
Over the last forty four years, we have steadily added depth to our company, instead of spreading ourselves wide and thin. Consistently delivering the exact same products that fulfil the exact same promise. Every time. That’s what makes us a strong brand, with a strong network, and even stronger goodwill. We are Finolex Industries Limited.
Partners in Compassion:
Mukul Madhav Foundation (MMF), our CSR partner, is a registered charitable trust under the Bombay Charitable Act, 1950. It has dedicated itself to uplifting underprivileged and vulnerable communities with opportunities that pave their path to success. Empowering them with educational facilities, hospitals, healthcare, sanitation and environmental support, social welfare and so much more. Creating a foundation for individuals, their communities and their environment to thrive. MMF also supports existing infrastructure and initiatives by helping them upgrade. We don’t simply donate funds, we endow dignity.