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The Guwahati Airport, better known as the Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport, will have a new terminal building by March 2021. The terminal, spanning 90,000 sq m, will be built at Rs 1,232 crore. As per reports, it will be equipped with world-class passenger facilities and have the capacity to handle 3,100 passengers during peak hours. The new terminal building has been necessitated as the existing one, which has an area of 16,800 sq m, has reportedly saturated. It handled 3.8 million passengers in 2016-17, 36 per cent more than in the previous year, against its design capacity of 3.5 million passengers per annum. The airport currently handles 796 movements per week, covering domestic and international destinations. It is also known that the new terminal will comply with the GRIHA (Green Rating for Integrated Habitat Assessment) four-star rating. An efficient solid waste management system, reuse of treated water for flushing and horticulture purposes, rainwater harvesting with sustainable urban drainage system and use of efficient water fixtures will reportedly be a few other green features of the project. According to reports, the authorities plan to have 64 check-in counters, 20 self check-in kiosks, eight immigration counters, eight custom counters, six arrival carousels, 10 aero-bridges, 10 escalators, one travelator, 25 elevators, 20 aircraft parking bays and 16 self-baggage counters at the new terminal.