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MICR Code: 144011005

Bank: Andhra Bank
IFSC Code: Andb0001959
MICR Code: 144011005
Address: Vpolidhran , Near Govt. Primary School, Lidhran ( Jalandhar) 144004
City: Jalandhar
District: Jalandhar
State: Punjab

What is MICR Code?

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.

Details of MICR Code

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 144011005.

  • In this case first three codes 144 is city code and it represents city Jalandhar.
  • Next three characters 011 represents bank Andhra Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 005 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Vpolidhran , Near Govt. Primary School, Lidhran ( Jalandhar) 144004.

How to find micr code (for example 144011005) from bank account number?

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.