MICR Code: 143024255

Bank: Punjab National Bank
IFSC Code: Punb0105600
MICR Code: 143024255
Address: Bhikhariwal Bakshiwal
City: Dist Gurdaspur Punjab
District: Bhikhariwal Bakshiwal (Punjab)
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 143024255.

  • In this case first three codes 143 is city code and it represents city Dist Gurdaspur Punjab.
  • Next three characters 024 represents bank Punjab National Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 255 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Bhikhariwal Bakshiwal.

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.