MICR Code: 174024158

Bank: Punjab National Bank
IFSC Code: Punb0213500
MICR Code: 174024158
Address: Harlog Distt. Bilaspur
City: Harlog
District: Harlog
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 174024158.

  • In this case first three codes 174 is city code and it represents city Harlog.
  • Next three characters 024 represents bank Punjab National Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 158 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Harlog Distt. Bilaspur.

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.