MICR Code: 147053002

Bank: Karur Vysya Bank Limited
IFSC Code: Kvbl0004304
MICR Code: 147053002
Address: Shop No. 8-9, Leela Bhawan Market, Near Gopal Sweets, Patiala-147001
City: Patiala
District: Patiala
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 147053002.

  • In this case first three codes 147 is city code and it represents city Patiala.
  • Next three characters 053 represents bank Karur Vysya Bank Limited.
  • Remaining characters which are 002 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Shop No. 8-9, Leela Bhawan Market, Near Gopal Sweets, Patiala-147001.

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.