MICR Code: 211024015

Bank: Punjab National Bank
IFSC Code: Punb0617700
MICR Code: 211024015
Address: Janpad Nyayadheesh Office, Civil Court
City: Compound
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 211024015.

  • In this case first three codes 211 is city code and it represents city Compound.
  • Next three characters 024 represents bank Punjab National Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 015 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Janpad Nyayadheesh Office, Civil Court.

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.