MICR Code: 600024060

Bank: Punjab National Bank
IFSC Code: Punb0743300
MICR Code: 600024060
Address: Plot No. 24, Bharath Avenue
City: Chitlapakkam High Road, Chennai
District: Kanchipuram
State: Tamil Nadu

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 600024060.

  • In this case first three codes 600 is city code and it represents city Chitlapakkam High Road, Chennai.
  • Next three characters 024 represents bank Punjab National Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 060 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Plot No. 24, Bharath Avenue.

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.