MICR Code: 600024098

Bank: Punjab National Bank
IFSC Code: Punb0616200
MICR Code: 600024098
Address: Sundervati Mahila Mahavidyalay, Bhagalpur
City: Bhagalpur
District: Bhagalpur
State: Bihar

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 600024098.

  • In this case first three codes 600 is city code and it represents city Bhagalpur.
  • Next three characters 024 represents bank Punjab National Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 098 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Sundervati Mahila Mahavidyalay, Bhagalpur.

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.