MICR Code: 144024004

Bank: Punjab National Bank
IFSC Code: Punb0070300
MICR Code: 144024004
Address: Punjab National Bank
City: Basti Nau, Jalandhar
District: Jalandhar
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 144024004.

  • In this case first three codes 144 is city code and it represents city Basti Nau, Jalandhar.
  • Next three characters 024 represents bank Punjab National Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 004 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Punjab National Bank.

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.