MICR Code: 140017102

Bank: Corporation Bank
IFSC Code: Corp0001772
MICR Code: 140017102
Address: Cheema Complex, Defence Bandh Road, Sirhind, Fatehgarh Sahib 140406 Jammu & Kashmir
City: Fatehgarh Sahib
District: Sirhind
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 140017102.

  • In this case first three codes 140 is city code and it represents city Fatehgarh Sahib.
  • Next three characters 017 represents bank Corporation Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 102 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Cheema Complex, Defence Bandh Road, Sirhind, Fatehgarh Sahib 140406 Jammu & Kashmir.

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.