Assam Public Health Act, 2010 (Act No. 12 of 2010).

This Act, consisting of 20 sections divided into six Chapters, provides for the protection and fulfillment of rights in relation to health and well-being, health equity and justice, including those related to all the underlying departments of health as well as health care. The Government in the Health and Family Welfare Department have the following general obligations towards the progressive realization of health and well being of every person in the state by undertaking appropriate and adequate budgetary measures, to the extent possible as per the globally accepted norms, to satisfy, the obligations and rights, ensuring planning and rational allocation and distribution of resources for various health issues and concerns. Its action shall prioritize the most vulnerable and marginalized groups, who are unable themselves to access the means for adequate and appropriate health care services, and ensuring them at least the minimum conditions of health care.
The Government in the Health and Family Welfare Department, in order to meet its obligation, shall coordinate the following actions: a) access to the minimum essential food which is nutritionally adequate; b) adequate supply of safe drinking water; c) sanitation through appropriate and effective sewerage and drainage systems, waste disposal and management systems, pollution control systems, control of ecological degradation, control of insects and rodents and other carriers of infections, addressing practices resulting in unhygienic disposal of human excreta and refuse, consumption of unhygienic water or food and through other measures; d) access to basic housing and access to basic facilities.