MICR Code: 147002101

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0011832
MICR Code: 147002101
Address: Amloh, Ms Yashudev Enterprises, Bye Pass Road, Amloh, Dt Fatehgarh Sahib, Punjab147203
City: Fatehgarh Saheb
District: Amloh
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 147002101.

  • In this case first three codes 147 is city code and it represents city Fatehgarh Saheb.
  • Next three characters 002 represents bank State Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 101 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Amloh, Ms Yashudev Enterprises, Bye Pass Road, Amloh, Dt Fatehgarh Sahib, Punjab147203.

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.