MICR Code: 208024503

Bank: Punjab National Bank
IFSC Code: Punb0095700
MICR Code: 208024503
Address: Tehsil Dehrapur, Distt. Kanpur Dehat
City: Uttar Pradesh
District: Kanpur Dehat (Up)
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 208024503.

  • In this case first three codes 208 is city code and it represents city Uttar Pradesh.
  • Next three characters 024 represents bank Punjab National Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 503 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Tehsil Dehrapur, Distt. Kanpur Dehat.

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.