AKBARPUR (Nuh): Haryana chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Saturday pitched for domesticating cows, saying his government has introduced various benefits for people who breed cows for dairy and domestic purposes. He also highlighted that Haryana is the first state to have a cow protection law.The CM was speaking at the inauguration of a cow shelter and health centre named Kamdhenu Aarogya Sansthan in Akbarpur village in Nuh, which will be using cow dung and urine to produce medicines and chemical-free disinfectants.“While the state government is doing its best for the welfare of cows in the state, beyond cow shelters, people must keep cows at their home. Haryana has 432 cow shelters in the state and is the first state to have a cow protection force and law,” he said.“In an effort to encourage the people in the state, we have also introduced various benefits for people who have cows at home. People must realise the importance of cow and its by-products and not just look at cow as an economic venture,” he added.Kamdhenu Aarogya Sansthan has already started working on using bio-mass for generation of electricity and using cow urine to make chemical-free disinfectants for the farmers to be used instead of fertilisers, the chief minister said.He also addressed the problems of the local people. “As far as the matter of merging Tawadu region with Gurgaon is concerned, we will discuss with the parties involved and decide on the matter by January latest,” he added.This was after the local MLA from the region, Tejpal Tanwar, said the region is on the border of Gurgaon and Mewat district, and it gets sidelined in the matters of development from both ends.