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  5. Nagrota Bhagwa (Himachal Pradesh)
  6. Nagrota Bhagwa (Himachal Pradesh)
  7. MICR: 176024371

MICR Code: 176024371

Bank: Punjab National Bank
IFSC Code: Punb0080200
MICR Code: 176024371
Address: Lower Market Nagrota Bagwan
City: Nagrota Bhagwa (Himachal Pradesh)
District: Nagrota Bhagwa (Himachal Pradesh)
State: Himachal Pradesh

What is MICR Code?

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.

Details of MICR Code

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 176024371.

  • In this case first three codes 176 is city code and it represents city Nagrota Bhagwa (Himachal Pradesh).
  • Next three characters 024 represents bank Punjab National Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 371 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Lower Market Nagrota Bagwan.

How to find micr code (for example 176024371) from bank account number?

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.