MICR Code: 142024104

Bank: Punjab National Bank
IFSC Code: Punb0682800
MICR Code: 142024104
Address: Railway Road
City: Makhu
District: Makhu (Bathinda)
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 142024104.

  • In this case first three codes 142 is city code and it represents city Makhu.
  • Next three characters 024 represents bank Punjab National Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 104 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Railway Road.

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.