MICR Code: 148259402

Bank: IDBI Bank
IFSC Code: Ibkl0000731
MICR Code: 148259402
Address: B-X/311, Pucca College Road, Opposite Water Works, Barnala -148101( Punjab)
City: Sangrur
District: Barnala
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 148259402.

  • In this case first three codes 148 is city code and it represents city Sangrur.
  • Next three characters 259 represents bank IDBI Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 402 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address B-X/311, Pucca College Road, Opposite Water Works, Barnala -148101( 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.