MICR Code: 211024501

Bank: Punjab National Bank
IFSC Code: Punb0207400
MICR Code: 211024501
Address: Po. Hata Block Manda, Distt. Allahabad
City: Allahabad
District: Allahabad
State: Uttar Pradesh

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 211024501.

  • In this case first three codes 211 is city code and it represents city Allahabad.
  • Next three characters 024 represents bank Punjab National Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 501 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Po. Hata Block Manda, Distt. Allahabad.

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.