MICR Code: 721024614

Bank: Punjab National Bank
IFSC Code: Punb0320800
MICR Code: 721024614
Address: At & Po Kukrakhupi, Paschim Mednipur
City: West Bengal
District: Kukrakhupi, Midnapore
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 721024614.

  • In this case first three codes 721 is city code and it represents city West Bengal.
  • Next three characters 024 represents bank Punjab National Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 614 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address At & Po Kukrakhupi, Paschim Mednipur.

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.