In mid-February, rural health practitioners of Assam sat on a three-day protest in Guwahati, demanding assured career and regular jobs. This follows a high court order, which has struck down the law under which they were trained and hired by the state health department to serve in rural areas. Owing to the shortage of doctors in the rural areas in the state, the Assam legislature had enacted the Assam Rural Health Regulatory Authority Act, which came into effect in September 18, 2004. The law envisaged a diploma in rural health care and medicine. However, a judgement of the Gauhati High Court, dated October 30, 2014, struck down the Act, terming it unconstitutional.

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