As per DoPT orders released on Monday the Appointment Committee of Cabinet (ACC) cleared the appointments as follows: Alok Tandon (IAS:1986:UP) laterally appointed as Joint Secretary, Cabinet Secretariat vice V P Joy (IAS:1987:KL) for a period of overall five years ending 16 October 2016. Gyanesh Kumar (IAS:1988:KL) appointed Joint Secretary, Ministry of Home Affairs vice M Gopal Reddy (IAS:1985:MP) for a period of five years. Currently he is posted in Delhi as Resident Commissioner to the Govt of Kerala. Manish Thakur (IAS:1998:AM) appointed Joint Secretary, Department of Defence Vice Ashok K Meena (IAS:1993:OR) for a period of five years. Prof R Srinivasan gets additional charge of Director, IIM, Bangalore S K Sharma (Scientist) appointed Director, (Operations), National Nuclear Power Corporation Limited (NPCIL) Rajender Kumar (IAS:2004:GJ) appointed Deputy Secretary, DoPT Aman Sharma (IPoS:2002) appointed Deputy Secretary, Department of Commerce Venkata Sastry Yedia (ITS:1990) appointed Director, Department of Higher Education (Ministry of HRD) Ashok Maheshwari (ITS:1994) appointed Director, Department of Higher Education (Ministry of HRD) Meyipokyim Aier (IFS:1995:MH) gets inter cadre deputation to Nagaland