Even though Don Bosco had received many invitations to open centres in India, it was only in 1906, under the leadership of his first successor, that the Salesians could come to work in India. Today, societies belonging to the Salesian family are spread all over India and render a multitude of services for the integral development of the young people of our country, through a large network of colleges, schools, technical institutes, agricultural training centres, socio-economic developmental centres and youth centres, A project of great significance undertaken by Don Bosco Society In the recent years in the establishment of Assam Don Bosco University in Guwahati.