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MICR Code: 147002191

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0011911
MICR Code: 147002191
Address: Main Road, Aggarsain Chownk, Samana Punjab, Dist Patiala 147101
City: Patiala
District: Samana
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 147002191.

  • In this case first three codes 147 is city code and it represents city Patiala.
  • Next three characters 002 represents bank State Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 191 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Main Road, Aggarsain Chownk, Samana Punjab, Dist Patiala 147101.

How to find micr code (for example 147002191) 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.