MICR Code: 176024374

Bank: Punjab National Bank
IFSC Code: Punb0084300
MICR Code: 176024374
Address: Vpo: Rehan Tehsil Nurpur, Distt. Kangra
City: Rehan
District: Rehan
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 176024374.

  • In this case first three codes 176 is city code and it represents city Rehan.
  • Next three characters 024 represents bank Punjab National Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 374 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Vpo: Rehan Tehsil Nurpur, Distt. Kangra.

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.