MICR Code: 577697685

Bank: Pragathi Krishna Gramin Bank
IFSC Code: Pkgb0010969
MICR Code: 577697685
Address: The Manager, Pragathi Krishna Gramin Bank, Tavanandi Branch, Sorab Tq, Shimoga Dist
City: Shimoga
District: Soraba
State: Karnataka

MICR is acronym of Magnetic Ink Character Recognition. Basically it is a character-recognition technology used by the banking industry to ease the processing and clearance of cheques and other documents.

Generally MICR code is nine character long. First three charaters represent city, next three charaters represents bank name and last three charaters represents bank branch.

Let's decode MICR code 577697685.

  • In this case first three codes 577 is city code and it represents city Shimoga.
  • Next three characters 697 represents bank Pragathi Krishna Gramin Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 685 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address The Manager, Pragathi Krishna Gramin Bank, Tavanandi Branch, Sorab Tq, Shimoga Dist.

The easiest way to find MICR code is to check your

  1. Bank account statement
  2. Cheques

Please examine below sample cheque for more details

I hope this clears doubts.