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MICR Code: 140024202

Bank: Punjab National Bank
IFSC Code: Punb0097300
MICR Code: 140024202
Address: Anandpur Sahib Dist- Ropar
City: Punjab
District: Anandpur Sahib, Punjab
State: Punjab

What is MICR Code?

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.

Details of MICR Code

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 140024202.

  • In this case first three codes 140 is city code and it represents city Punjab.
  • Next three characters 024 represents bank Punjab National Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 202 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Anandpur Sahib Dist- Ropar.

How to find micr code (for example 140024202) from bank account number?

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.