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Notwithstanding allegations of sexual harassment by a former colleague, The Energy Research Institute’s former chief, RK Pachauri, was appointed Executive Vice Chairman of the organisation on Monday.
Head of the government’s Bureau of Energy Efficiency, Ajay Mathur, took over as the Director General. Mathur was also on the Prime Minister’s Council on Climate Change.
Pachauri has headed TERI, which works in the field of sustainable development, energy and climate change, for the past 35 years. The post of Executive Vice Chairman has been recently created and Pachauri will be the first to hold it.
In February last year, a junior colleague had accused him of sexual harassment, following which he had to proceed on leave, but joined work in July with a court quashing the internal committee report that found him guilty of misconduct.
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He was removed as chairman of the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change, an international body of scientists that makes periodic assessment of climate change science.
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The complainant, who recently wrote to the Prime Minister, has said that he should have been suspended.
(With inputs from PTI)
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