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Middle Temple.
Middle Temple.
He had charge of Jammu and Kashmir during the governments of Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi. An agriculturist, Vikal championed the cause of the farmers, labourers and backward classes, and was instrumental in implementing various social welfare measures such as getting irrigation rates reduced and land revenue written official He also contributed to the setting up of various infrastructure facilities in the towns and villages of Uttar Pradesh by having bridges and railway lines constructed.
He was also instrumental in getting several primary schools and colleges set up, establishing agricultural universities in Faizabad and Kanpur and a medical college in Meerut.
Vikal was awarded the Degree of Vidyavachaspati, Honoris Causa, by the Gurukul Mahavidyalaya, Jwalapur (Haridwar). He held various ministerial posts — Forests and Animal Husbandry, Excise, Agriculture,Irrigation, Jail and Fisheries – in the government of Uttar Pradesh from 1969 to 1970.
He was also Leader of the Opposition in the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly in 1967 and Chairman of State Farms Corporation of India from 1982-1984.
He was an agriculture minister and was elected twice as a Member of Parliament as well as a five-time Member of the Legislative Assembly. Ram Chandra Vikal started his legislative career as a Member of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly in 1952 and was Member of that Assembly from 1952 to 1971. Vikal was a Member of the Fifth Lok Sabha from Bagpat and represented Uttar Pradesh in the Rajya Sabha from April, 1984 to April, 1990.