MICR Code: 226024041

Bank: Punjab National Bank
IFSC Code: Punb0695000
MICR Code: 226024041
Address: Cp-1 Sector-3 Chandrika Tower
City: Jankipuram Extension,Lucknow
District: Lucknow
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 226024041.

  • In this case first three codes 226 is city code and it represents city Jankipuram Extension,Lucknow.
  • Next three characters 024 represents bank Punjab National Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 041 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Cp-1 Sector-3 Chandrika Tower.

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.