MICR Code: 713024202

Bank: Punjab National Bank
IFSC Code: Punb0015800
MICR Code: 713024202
Address: Punjab National Bank,B/O Durgapur Bhirangi
City: Bena Chity, Durgapur
District: Durgapur
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 713024202.

  • In this case first three codes 713 is city code and it represents city Bena Chity, Durgapur.
  • Next three characters 024 represents bank Punjab National Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 202 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Punjab National Bank,B/O Durgapur Bhirangi.

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.