MICR Code: 854024102

Bank: Punjab National Bank
IFSC Code: Punb0293100
MICR Code: 854024102
Address: Manju Complex, Bhatha Bazar Road
City: Purnea
District: Purnea
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 854024102.

  • In this case first three codes 854 is city code and it represents city Purnea.
  • Next three characters 024 represents bank Punjab National Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 102 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Manju Complex, Bhatha Bazar Road.

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.