<h1>Guwahati airport's new Rs4,000-cr nature-themed terminal opens, and bamboo reclassification boosts regional connectivity and tourism potential.</h1> The new Guwahati terminal is a 140,000 sq m nature-themed facility within a Rs 5,000 crore project (including Rs 1,000 crore for MRO) designed to handle 13.1 million passengers and developed by a public developer with private operations. The Prime Minister cited the 2017 amendment to the Indian Forest Act, 1927 reclassifying bamboo grown in non-forest areas as grass, linking that regulatory change to the extensive use of bamboo in the terminal's construction.