MICR Code: 741024502

Bank: Punjab National Bank
IFSC Code: Punb0319500
MICR Code: 741024502
Address: Po Chakbamangeria, Dt Burdwan
City: West Bengal
District: Bhaturia, Dist Burdwan
State: West Bengal

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 741024502.

  • In this case first three codes 741 is city code and it represents city West Bengal.
  • Next three characters 024 represents bank Punjab National Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 502 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Po Chakbamangeria, Dt Burdwan.

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.