MICR Code: 370024004

Bank: Punjab National Bank
IFSC Code: Punb0159800
MICR Code: 370024004
Address: Kandla Special Economic Zone
City: Gandhidham
District: Gandhidham
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 370024004.

  • In this case first three codes 370 is city code and it represents city Gandhidham.
  • Next three characters 024 represents bank Punjab National Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 004 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Kandla Special Economic Zone.

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.