MICR Code: 680024011

Bank: Punjab National Bank
IFSC Code: Punb0433500
MICR Code: 680024011
Address: 1 St Floor, South Hill Arcade
City: Pazhayannur, Thrissur
District: Pazhayannur (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 680024011.

  • In this case first three codes 680 is city code and it represents city Pazhayannur, Thrissur.
  • Next three characters 024 represents bank Punjab National Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 011 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address 1 St Floor, South Hill Arcade.

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.