MICR Code: 249024010

Bank: Punjab National Bank
IFSC Code: Punb0022700
MICR Code: 249024010
Address: Peeth Bazaar
City: Haridwar
District: Haridwar
State: Uttarakhand

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 249024010.

  • In this case first three codes 249 is city code and it represents city Haridwar.
  • Next three characters 024 represents bank Punjab National Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 010 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Peeth Bazaar.

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.