MICR Code: 679024803

Bank: Punjab National Bank
IFSC Code: Punb0430700
MICR Code: 679024803
Address: 12/853, Kalyani Bldg. Bus Stand Ing
City: Tirur Road, Kuttipuram
District: Kuttipuram
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 679024803.

  • In this case first three codes 679 is city code and it represents city Tirur Road, Kuttipuram.
  • Next three characters 024 represents bank Punjab National Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 803 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address 12/853, Kalyani Bldg. Bus Stand Ing.

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.