MICR Code: 136024001

Bank: Punjab National Bank
IFSC Code: Punb0481500
MICR Code: 136024001
Address: Krishana Dham
City: Kurukshetra
District: Kurukshetra
State: Haryana

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 136024001.

  • In this case first three codes 136 is city code and it represents city Kurukshetra.
  • Next three characters 024 represents bank Punjab National Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 001 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Krishana Dham.

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.