MICR Code: 202024008

Bank: Punjab National Bank
IFSC Code: Punb0649100
MICR Code: 202024008
Address: Etah Road, Naurangabad
City: Aligarh
District: Aligarh
State: Uttar Pradesh

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 202024008.

  • In this case first three codes 202 is city code and it represents city Aligarh.
  • Next three characters 024 represents bank Punjab National Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 008 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Etah Road, Naurangabad.

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.