MICR Code: 226024007

Bank: Punjab National Bank
IFSC Code: Punb0146800
MICR Code: 226024007
Address: Ilahi Complex Opposite Gurudwara
City: Naka Road
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 226024007.

  • In this case first three codes 226 is city code and it represents city Naka Road.
  • Next three characters 024 represents bank Punjab National Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 007 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Ilahi Complex Opposite Gurudwara.

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.