NEW DELHI: A day after being asked to resign following a sexual harassment case, Teri chief R K Pachauri on Saturday quit the Prime Minister’s Council on Climate Change . His resignation was accepted with immediate effect.“Prime Minister Narendra Modi has accepted the resignation of R K Pachauri from the PM’s Council on Climate Change,” said a statement issued by the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO).Government sources said Pachauri was asked on Friday to resign from the Council. He was told to tender his resignation, failing which the PMO would replace him with someone else in the Council, the sources said.Pachauri, who stepped down from the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in the wake of the allegations against him by a woman employee, has taken leave from Teri.The Teri director general was also in the previous Council when Manmohan Singh was PM. The Council was first constituted by UPA government in 2007. He was retained in the Council when it was reconstituted by Narendra Modi in November last year.The Council is meant for coordinating national action plans for assessment, adaptation and mitigation of climate change. It advises government on pro-active measures that can be taken to deal with the challenge of climate change. It also facilitates inter-ministerial coordination and as a guide to policy in relevant areas.Pachauri has been barred from entering his office premises following a recent Delhi court order.