[Assam] TOEFL centre soon at Tezpur varsity (The Assam Tribune, 08.01.2011)

[Buljit Buragohain]

TOEFL centre soon at Tezpur varsity
Spl Correspondent
 NEW
 DELHI, Jan 7 – In an encouraging development, students from the 
North-east now need not travel outside the region to appear for crucial 
English proficiency test, as Test of English as a Foreign Language 
(TOEFL) centre is likely to start functioning at Tezpur University, 
shortly.This was 
disclosed by prominent Assamese non-resident Indian (NRI). Wahid Saleh, 
who took the initiative to set up a TOEFL centre in the North-east.Currently,
 technical evaluation is on and if all goes well, the institute should 
get the certificate next week, Saleh, who is settled in Netherland, said
 addressing a seminar held on the occasion of the Pravasi Bharatiya 
Divas (PBD) that got under way here today. The
 whole of North-east did not have s single TOEFL examination centre. Why
 nobody has taken the initiative to set up a TOEFL centre in the region,
 he wondered.Saleh
 said he took up the issue with the authorities in US and was directed 
to the concerned authority in India. Assam is very soon going to have a 
TOEFL examination centre at Tezpur University, he declared.  The TOEFL 
test measures ability to use and understand English at the university 
level. Each 
year, nearly a million individuals of all ages take the TOEFL test. 
Students planning to study at higher education institutions abroad, 
scholarship and certification candidates, among others take the test.

(The Assam Tribune, 08.01.2011)