MICR Code: 141002171

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0010748
MICR Code: 141002171
Address: Hari Singh Nalwa Chowk, Raikotludhiana Dist Punjab State 141109
City: Ludhiana
District: Raikot
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 141002171.

  • In this case first three codes 141 is city code and it represents city Ludhiana.
  • Next three characters 002 represents bank State Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 171 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Hari Singh Nalwa Chowk, Raikotludhiana Dist Punjab State 141109.

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.