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Assam introduces bill to combat illegal healing practices, faces criticism

Assam Healing (Prevention of Evil) Practices Bill, 2024 aims to bring social awakening and to create healthy, science-based knowledge and a safe environment to protect human health against the evil and sinister practices thriving on ignorance and ill-health of people to eradicate the non-scientific healing practices with ulterior motives for exploiting the innocent people and thereby destroying the fibre of the public health of the society.