ABOUT HARISHCHANDRA P.G. COLLEGE

Harish Chandra Postgraduate College, Varanasi is a Govt. aided college and is one of the premier seat of learning of Eastern U.P. under the auspices of Harish Chandra Vidyalaya Samiti (a non profitable charitable institution registered under Indian Society Act 1860.)

Bharatendu Harishchandra, the profounder of the modern Hindi Language founded this institution with five students of the locality in 1866. By1910,the institution had started High School Classes. The Intermediate Classes started in year 1939.

The Undergraduate Classes in Arts and Commerce began on oct. 4, 1951.At first; the college was affiliated to Banaras Hindu University. The recognition of the Law Classes was made possible in the year 1958

However, owing to certain amendments and changes in the rules and regulation of B.H.U., the college shifted its affiliation with the University of Gorakhpur in the year 1960.Consequently, the B.Ed. Classes began the same year, whereas recognition for B.SC. classes in Maths. Group and Bio. Group was granted in the year 1963 and 1974 respectively.

With the establishment of the Purvanchal University, Jaunpur the college was affiliated to this University in 1987-88. From the session 2009-10, the affiliation of the college is shifted to M.G.Kashi Vidyapeeth,Varanasi.

The college has Postgraduate in the subjects-Commerce, Statistics, Hindi, Mathematics, Chemistry, Botany, Zoology, Political Science, English and Psychology.

Having crossed different stages of development, the college now runs five full-fledged faculties of Arts, Commerce, Science, Education and Law, where studies of different subjects at Undergraduate and Postgraduate levels are being carried out. The institution is now emerging as a centre for Research Work in different subjects in the faculties of Arts, Science and Commerce.

Some of the old graduates of this institution have rendered valuable services to humanity and to the nation in different fields. Late Lal Bahadur Shastri, Ex- Prime Minister of India, Late V.P.Koirala, Ex-Prime Minister of Nepal, Late Dr.Sampurnanand, Ex-Chief Minister of U.P., Late T.N.Singh, Ex-Governor of West Bengal and Late Brig.Usman can be quoted as a few instances.

Institutional Development Plan - IDP (2023-28)

Vision and Mission

Vision
To inculcate and sustain the quality in all dimensions of higher education catering to the national and global needs and create awareness of human rights, value system, culture and heritage of the country.

Mission

To equip and empower students with relevant knowledge, competence and creativity to face regional and global challenges.
To promote the building up of character in youth by religion and ethics as an integral part of education.
To facilitate a broad range of learning opportunities for learners engrossed in graduate, postgraduate and research programmes.
To provide the right kind of leadership in all walks of life.
To create homogeneous intermingling of all sections of the society.

Our Founder: Bharatendu Harishchandra

A rarity with vision and a phenomenon with ideal, Bharatendu Harishchandra, the highly distinguished founder and the moving force of this institution, has immortalized himself on account of his yeoman services towards literature, society, culture, language and Nation.

His contribution to evolution and popularization of what preceded present-day Hindi and his enrichment of different branches of Hindi literature are considered so substantialthat Bharatendu Harishchandra is rightly called the Father of Modern Hindi.

Born on Sept. 9, 1850, Bharatendubabu lived a very short life of about 34 years and left for heavenly abode on Jan. 6, 1885.His exceptional literary contribution was inspiring, entertaining, ecstatic, and character-molding and was soaked with national and patriotic feeling. It was as useful to the contemporary Indians as it still is to the present Indian Society.

Bharatendu Harishchandra's realization of the importance of education was so acute that he started a school in 1866 in his house for the poor. This school which Bharatendu has started with five student on its rolls is today's Harish Chandra Postgraduate College having a strength of about 6000 students.

Kulgeet

कुलगीत

हम सबके प्राणों का प्यारा, यह विद्यालय है |
जीवन का साथी ध्रुवतारा, यह विद्यालय है ||

हरिश्चंद्र का तप है पावन,
यह उनका कीर्ति-निकेतन |
माँ हिंदी का सबल सहारा, यह विद्यालय है ||

सदाचार, संयम, अनुशाषन,
देश प्रेम का व्रती चिरंतन,
सभी भांति औरों से न्यारा, यह विद्यालय है ||

भारतेन्दु की ज्योति अमर है,
यह अक्षर है, अविनश्वर है,
सुन्दर शिव संकल्प सँवारा, यह विद्यालय है ||

हम सबका बस यही ध्येय हो,
प्रिय प्रवाह इसका अजेय हो,
सुखद ज्ञान गंगा की धारा, यह विद्यालय है ||

यहाँ रहें या और कहीं हम,
इसका स्नेह नहीं होगा कम,
हम इसके हैं और हमारा, यह विद्यालय है ||

स्व. कांतानाथ पांडेय "राजहंस"
(भूतपूर्व प्राचार्य द्वारा रचित)