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PNB Hooghly Hooghly West Bengal MICR CODE

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MICR Code	-NA-
Bank	Punjab National Bank
Business Hours	Monday to Saturday 10 am to 4 pm
Mode Of Payment	Cash,Cheque,Demand Draft and Net banking
Branch	Chinsurah
Contact	0
Bank Details	Punjab National Bank Chinsurah PUNB0015420

Location	Hooghly, Hooghly
City	Hooghly
District	Hooghly
State	West Bengal
Pincode
Country	IN
Address	Town guard rd,chinsurah

Note: The working hours listed are generalized for all banks. Please take a note that the bank timings may vary from branch to branch. As per guidelines issued by Reserve Bank of India, banks will not be operational on 2nd and 4th Saturdays and all Sundays of a month.

How does MICR code 0 for Chinsurah branch help to speed up the cheque clearing process?

In manual clearing of cheques, many errors may occur and the whole process is quite time consuming. The MICR technology speeds up the processing of cheque as it reduces manual efforts of sorting. Thus the 0 of Punjab National Bank , Chinsurah branch makes the system almost error free and faster. Use of Punjab National Bank MICR codes for Chinsurah branch, makes the characters readable even if there are other marks and stamps on it.

A total of 4 branches of Punjab National Bank are available with micr code -

>>Chinsurah >>Mcc Hooghly >>Serampore >>Uttarpara

MICR code for PNB Chinsurah

PNB MICR (Magnetic Ink Character Recognition) code is a machine readable code used for processing and clearance of cheques. Punjab National Bank MICR code for Chinsurah is a 9 digit code, in which first 3 digit represents the city code, next 3 digit to bank code and later 3 digit to branch code. 0 is the MICR code of PNB Bank for Chinsurah branch. MICR code for Chinsurah branch includes document type indicator, bank code, cheque number, etc. When a cheque goes for clearing, this code is read by a magnetic reader and then automatically sorted. MICR code for Punjab National Bank Chinsurah is presented in the table alongside.

Use of Punjab National Bank MICR code for Chinsurah branch in hooghly

The MICR code 0 is used in RBI cheque clearing process to identify the branch Chinsurah and Punjab National Bank bank for clearing processes. The MICR characters, which are printed using magnetic ink, are passed before a MICR reader. Initially the ink gets magnetized and when it is read, each character produces a unique waveform which can be easily identified. MICR code of PNB Bank is typically in either of these two font’s: E-138 and CMC-7.