MICR Code: 700024081

Bank: Punjab National Bank
IFSC Code: Punb0609600
MICR Code: 700024081
Address: 2 Belilious Road, Po Howrah
City: Howrah, West Bengal
District: Howrah, West Bengal
State: West Bengal

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 700024081.

  • In this case first three codes 700 is city code and it represents city Howrah, West Bengal.
  • Next three characters 024 represents bank Punjab National Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 081 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address 2 Belilious Road, Po Howrah.

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.