MICR Code: 205001001

Bank: Punjab National Bank
IFSC Code: Punb0416900
MICR Code: 205001001
Address: Merged With 367800 On 07-06-2009
City: Mainpuri
District: Mainpuri
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 205001001.

  • In this case first three codes 205 is city code and it represents city Mainpuri.
  • Next three characters 001 represents bank Punjab National Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 001 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Merged With 367800 On 07-06-2009.

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.