MICR Code: 380024005

Bank: Punjab National Bank
IFSC Code: Punb0096400
MICR Code: 380024005
Address: Bhagwan Avenue Near Railway Crossing
City: Maninagar East
District: Ahmedabad
State: Gujarat

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 380024005.

  • In this case first three codes 380 is city code and it represents city Maninagar East.
  • Next three characters 024 represents bank Punjab National Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 005 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Bhagwan Avenue Near Railway Crossing.

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.