MICR Code: 277024002

Bank: Punjab National Bank
IFSC Code: Punb0125900
MICR Code: 277024002
Address: Station Road, Po Townhall Ballia
City: Ballia
District: Ballia
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 277024002.

  • In this case first three codes 277 is city code and it represents city Ballia.
  • Next three characters 024 represents bank Punjab National Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 002 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Station Road, Po Townhall Ballia.

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.