MICR Code: 610024003

Bank: Punjab National Bank
IFSC Code: Punb0283800
MICR Code: 610024003
Address: Kanchanam Main Road
City: Kolapadu Thiruvarur Dist
District: Kolapadu
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 610024003.

  • In this case first three codes 610 is city code and it represents city Kolapadu Thiruvarur Dist.
  • Next three characters 024 represents bank Punjab National Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 003 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Kanchanam Main Road.

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.