MICR Code: 143024160

Bank: Punjab National Bank
IFSC Code: Punb0039600
MICR Code: 143024160
Address: Punjab National Bank
City: Opposit Post Office, Qadian
District: Qadian
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 143024160.

  • In this case first three codes 143 is city code and it represents city Opposit Post Office, Qadian.
  • Next three characters 024 represents bank Punjab National Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 160 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.