MICR Code: 140002306

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0012209
MICR Code: 140002306
Address: Near Temple Village Kandala,P.O. Dharamgarh, Distmohali140306
City: Mohali
District: Mohali
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 140002306.

  • In this case first three codes 140 is city code and it represents city Mohali.
  • Next three characters 002 represents bank State Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 306 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Near Temple Village Kandala,P.O. Dharamgarh, Distmohali140306.

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.