MICR Code: 140002101

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0005849
MICR Code: 140002101
Address: Dist Rupnagar, Punjab 140 101
City: Rupnagar
District: Morinda
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 140002101.

  • In this case first three codes 140 is city code and it represents city Rupnagar.
  • Next three characters 002 represents bank State Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 101 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Dist Rupnagar, Punjab 140 101.

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.