MICR Code: 151002204

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0005601
MICR Code: 151002204
Address: Dist Faridkot, Punjab 151203
City: Faridkot
District: Faridkot
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 151002204.

  • In this case first three codes 151 is city code and it represents city Faridkot.
  • Next three characters 002 represents bank State Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 204 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Dist Faridkot, Punjab 151203.

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.