MICR Code: 174024302

Bank: Punjab National Bank
IFSC Code: Punb0078600
MICR Code: 174024302
Address: Mehatpur
City: Mehatpur
District: Mehatpur
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 174024302.

  • In this case first three codes 174 is city code and it represents city Mehatpur.
  • Next three characters 024 represents bank Punjab National Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 302 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Mehatpur.

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.