MICR Code: 678024807

Bank: Punjab National Bank
IFSC Code: Punb0430500
MICR Code: 678024807
Address: 3/605, Venkatesa Nivas, Kuthannur
City: Palakkad
District: Kuthannur (Kerala)
State: Kerala

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 678024807.

  • In this case first three codes 678 is city code and it represents city Palakkad.
  • Next three characters 024 represents bank Punjab National Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 807 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address 3/605, Venkatesa Nivas, Kuthannur.

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.