6 May 2016 Current Affair for Competition Exams

Portal for Contract Labour Payment Management System launched.
Piyush Goyal, Minister of State (IC) for Power, Coal and New & Renewable Energy on 4 May 2016 launched ‘Contract Labour Payment Management System’- a portal of Coal India Limited (CIL).
This web portal will help the government to curb problems like corruption and exploitation of contractual workers by contractors. It will also help in providing proper and timely wages to contractual workers.


Union Cabinet approved to adopt United Nations fundamental principles of official statistics.
The Union Cabinet chaired by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 4 May 2016 approved to adopt the United Nations fundamental principles of official statistics.
The adoption will bring professional independence, impartiality, accountability and transparency of official statistics, besides adopting international standards.


Radha Binod Barman took over as part-time Chairperson of National Statistical Commission.
Renowned statistician Dr Radha Binod Barman on 4 May 2016 took over as the part-time Chairperson in the National Statistical Commission.
National Statistical Commission is an autonomous body, which was formed in July 2006. The objective of its constitution is to reduce the problems faced by statistical agencies in the country in relation to collection of data.


Agriculture project Harita-Priya of Andhra Pradesh wins WSIS 2016 prize.
The agriculture project Harita-Priya of Andhra Pradesh on 3 May 2016 won the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) 2016 prize in e-Agriculture category.
The prize was announced in Geneva by International Telecommunications Union (ITU) Secretary-General Houlin Zhao.