MICR Code: 144017502

Bank: Corporation Bank
IFSC Code: Corp0001639
MICR Code: 144017502
Address: Talwan Road Phillaur Dist Jallandhar Punjab
City: Jalandhar
District: Phillaur
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 144017502.

  • In this case first three codes 144 is city code and it represents city Jalandhar.
  • Next three characters 017 represents bank Corporation Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 502 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Talwan Road Phillaur Dist Jallandhar Punjab.

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.