MICR Code: 147011152

Bank: Andhra Bank
IFSC Code: Andb0001964
MICR Code: 147011152
Address: Circular Road, Next To Deepak Furniture, Bouran Gate, Nabha - 147201
City: Patiala
District: Nabha
State: Punjab

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 147011152.

  • In this case first three codes 147 is city code and it represents city Patiala.
  • Next three characters 011 represents bank Andhra Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 152 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Circular Road, Next To Deepak Furniture, Bouran Gate, Nabha - 147201.

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.