MICR Code: 312024002

Bank: Punjab National Bank
IFSC Code: Punb0057900
MICR Code: 312024002
Address: Pratap Nagar
City: Chittorgarh
District: Chitorgarh
State: Rajasthan

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 312024002.

  • In this case first three codes 312 is city code and it represents city Chittorgarh.
  • Next three characters 024 represents bank Punjab National Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 002 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Pratap Nagar.

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.