MICR Code: 143002051

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0000616
MICR Code: 143002051
Address: Batala, Dist Gurdaspur, State Punjab, Pin 1200
City: Gurdaspur
District: Chandigarh
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 143002051.

  • In this case first three codes 143 is city code and it represents city Gurdaspur.
  • Next three characters 002 represents bank State Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 051 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Batala, Dist Gurdaspur, State Punjab, Pin 1200.

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.