Harish Chandra Post Graduate College

Harish Chandra Post Graduate College was founded in 1866 by Bharatendu Harishchandra, the pioneering figure of modern Hindi literature, starting with just five students. A century and a half later, it's grown into one of Varanasi's premier government-aided institutions, running five full faculties — Arts, Commerce, Science, Education, and Law — under the Harish Chandra Vidyalaya Samiti. We've been the college's website partner since 2013 — our longest-running relationship of any client on this site. The site started in core PHP and migrated to Drupal 7 in 2017, the platform it still runs on today. What makes this partnership distinctive is how directly the college relies on it day to day: admission merit lists, NCC notices, and holiday announcements all get published live by the college's own staff, not by us — in the second week of September 2026 alone, that included B.A., B.Sc., and B.Com admission merit lists going up in real time. The site's E-Lectures section is its own story. It was built during the Covid-19 shift to online classes so faculty could upload study material directly — and it never went away. Reference PDFs originally meant for HCPG's own students, on topics from the Revolt of 1857 to physics diffraction, are now found and downloaded by students across India simply searching for that exact material. One history reference document alone has drawn more than 30,000 clicks from Google search. That reach hasn't come at the expense of the college's own identity online: search for "HCPG," "Harishchandra PG College," or any close variant, and the site holds the #1 position, with click-through rates as high as 70–75%. And none of it — the daily administrative use, a nationally distributed student audience, consistently strong rankings — has cost the site any stability. It's carried this load on the same platform for more than a decade without major disruption.