MICR Code: 281024000

Bank: Punjab National Bank
IFSC Code: Punb0183800
MICR Code: 281024000
Address: Chowki Bagh Bahadur Mathura
City: Mathura
District: Mathura
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 281024000.

  • In this case first three codes 281 is city code and it represents city Mathura.
  • Next three characters 024 represents bank Punjab National Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 000 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Chowki Bagh Bahadur Mathura.

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.