MICR Code: 148024453

Bank: Punjab National Bank
IFSC Code: Punb0330900
MICR Code: 148024453
Address: Vill And Po Thikriwala
City: Distt Barnala
District: Thikriwala
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 148024453.

  • In this case first three codes 148 is city code and it represents city Distt Barnala.
  • Next three characters 024 represents bank Punjab National Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 453 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Vill And Po Thikriwala.

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.