MICR Code: 176024260

Bank: Punjab National Bank
IFSC Code: Punb0154100
MICR Code: 176024260
Address: Vpo Daroh, Teh Palampur
City: Daroh Dist Kangra (Hp)
District: Daroh Dist Kangra (Hp)
State: Himachal Pradesh

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 176024260.

  • In this case first three codes 176 is city code and it represents city Daroh Dist Kangra (Hp).
  • Next three characters 024 represents bank Punjab National Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 260 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Vpo Daroh, Teh Palampur.

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.