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MICR Code: 144002014

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0001547
MICR Code: 144002014
Address: New Grain Market Jalandhar, Punjab 144004
City: Jalandhar
District: Jalandhar
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 144002014.

  • In this case first three codes 144 is city code and it represents city Jalandhar.
  • Next three characters 002 represents bank State Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 014 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address New Grain Market Jalandhar, Punjab 144004.

How to find micr code (for example 144002014) 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.