A decade ago, Adani Green Energy’s 648 MW Kamuthi Solar Park spread over 4,000 acres in Kamuthi taluk, Ramanathapuram district, enclosing Dadhakulam, Kundukulam, Olugupuli, Pudukottai and O. Karisalkulam and leaving half the homes in Dadhakulam empty. Village residents signed powers of attorney—sometimes for just ₹10,000 per acre—under broker assurances they could keep farming, only to have their plots sold without consent and fences cut off livestock routes across traditional grazing lands. With fields gone, some families from Kundukulam and Olugupuli have migrated, while those still in Pudukottai and O. Karisalkulam earn ₹300–₹500 daily as labourers merely to buy scarce drinking water from Kottamaeri borewells. Solar panel cleaning continues to deplete those wells, and despite promises, water-treatment plants and repairs to the village overhead tank remain unfinished, forcing remaining households into debt and daily survival struggles.

The Business and Human Rights Resource Centre contacted Adani Green Energy for a response but did not receive one.