MICR Code: 143333001

Bank: Axis Bank
IFSC Code: Utib0sasr01
MICR Code: 143333001
Address: Head Office - Hall Gate, Amritsar -143001
City: Amritsar
District: Amritsar
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 143333001.

  • In this case first three codes 143 is city code and it represents city Amritsar.
  • Next three characters 333 represents bank Axis Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 001 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Head Office - Hall Gate, Amritsar -143001.

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.