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  7. MICR: 143002999

MICR Code: 143002999

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0010157
MICR Code: 143002999
Address: Clearing Cpc, Town Hall Amritsar
City: Amritsar
District: Clearing Cpc
State: Punjab

What is MICR Code?

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.

Details of MICR Code

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 143002999.

  • In this case first three codes 143 is city code and it represents city Amritsar.
  • Next three characters 002 represents bank State Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 999 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Clearing Cpc, Town Hall Amritsar.

How to find micr code (for example 143002999) from bank account number?

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.