MICR Code: 146024010

Bank: Punjab National Bank
IFSC Code: Punb0686100
MICR Code: 146024010
Address: Back Office, Old Sabzi Mandi Jalandhar
City: Road ,Hoshiarpur
District: Hoshiarpur
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 146024010.

  • In this case first three codes 146 is city code and it represents city Road ,Hoshiarpur.
  • Next three characters 024 represents bank Punjab National Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 010 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Back Office, Old Sabzi Mandi Jalandhar.

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.