MICR Code: 152002221

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0002339
MICR Code: 152002221
Address: Dist Muktsar, Punjab 15203
City: Muktsar
District: Doda
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 152002221.

  • In this case first three codes 152 is city code and it represents city Muktsar.
  • Next three characters 002 represents bank State Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 221 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Dist Muktsar, Punjab 15203.

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.