MICR Code: 148024455

Bank: Punjab National Bank
IFSC Code: Punb0602500
MICR Code: 148024455
Address: Bhadaur Distt Barnala
City: Punjab
District: Bhadaur Distt Barnala
State: Punjab

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 148024455.

  • In this case first three codes 148 is city code and it represents city Punjab.
  • Next three characters 024 represents bank Punjab National Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 455 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Bhadaur Distt Barnala.

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.