MICR Code: 224024055

Bank: Punjab National Bank
IFSC Code: Punb0019400
MICR Code: 224024055
Address: Faizabad
City: Faizabad
District: Faizabad
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 224024055.

  • In this case first three codes 224 is city code and it represents city Faizabad.
  • Next three characters 024 represents bank Punjab National Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 055 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Faizabad.

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.