New Delhi, Feb. 7 -- As many as 26 countries provide visa-free entry, 40 countries provide visa-on-arrival facilities and 58 countries provide e-visa facilities to Indian passport holders, the Parliament was informed on Friday.

In a written reply in Lok Sabha, Minister of State for External Affairs Kirti Vardhan Singh refrained from commenting on a fall in Indian passport's position by five spots to 85th position in the recently released Henley Passport Index 2025.

In a question on the global passport Index, TDP member Vemireddy Prabhakar Reddy had asked if the government had taken note that the Indian passport had fallen from the 80th position in 2024 and down from the 71st position in the year 2006 on the Index.

MoS Kirti Vardhan Sin...