MICR Code: 802024609

Bank: Punjab National Bank
IFSC Code: Punb0072500
MICR Code: 802024609
Address: Dist.- Bhojpur
City: Bihar
District: Koilwar, Distt Bhojpur
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 802024609.

  • In this case first three codes 802 is city code and it represents city Bihar.
  • Next three characters 024 represents bank Punjab National Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 609 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Dist.- Bhojpur.

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.