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New Delhi: In a unique initiative, the Delhi government is planning to club a cow shelter with old age home, as it introduced city’s first Animal Health and Welfare Policy on Wednesday. Speaking to media after a conference on the ‘Animal Health and Welfare Policy-2018’, Delhi Minister of Animal Husbandry Gopal Rai said the animals and humans have been interdependent. It has been suggested in the policy that the Animal Husbandry unit of the Development Department should be named as Department of Animal Health and Welfare. The Delhi government currently has five cow shelters of which only four are working. “It is common that people keep a cow only till it gives milk and throws it out when it is of no use..