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Union Minister for Communications Jyotiraditya Scindia has said a Passport Seva Kendra will be opened in each of the 543 parliamentary constituencies in the country. Scindia made the announcement on Saturday while inaugurating a Passport Seva Kendra in Madhya Pradesh's Guna, the parliamentary constituency he represents.

The Union minister also said that six new passport centres will be opened in MP this year.
“Prime Minister Narendra Modi has decided to establish a Passport Seva Kendra in each parliamentary constituency with the aim of expanding services. The Department of Posts, in collaboration with the Ministry of External Affairs, is committed to making this resolution a reality,” he said.

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The minister also informed that 6,000 post offices have been opened across the country.
“We should try to revive the tradition of writing letters by hand in the country because it expresses true feelings of the heart,” he said.

Scindia said several technological changes have taken place in the post office services. The people of Guna had to go to Bhopal and Gwalior to get their passports made, but the Passport Seva Kendra will resolve their problems, he said.

Meanwhile, India's ranking has dropped by five points to 85 this year in a global passport index, topped by Singapore for the second consecutive year.

The data draws from the Henley Passport Index released by citizenship advisory firm Henley & Partners on Wednesday.

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"With historical data spanning 19 years, the Henley Passport Index is the only one of its kind based on exclusive data from the International Air Transport Authority (IATA). The index includes 199 different passports and 227 different travel destinations," according to its website.