MICR Code: 144007014

Bank: State Bank of Patiala
IFSC Code: Stbp0000312
MICR Code: 144007014
Address: Sco 37, Crystal Plaza, Chhoti Baradari Part 1, Garha Road Jalandhar 144001
City: Jalandhar
District: Jalandhar
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 144007014.

  • In this case first three codes 144 is city code and it represents city Jalandhar.
  • Next three characters 007 represents bank State Bank of Patiala.
  • Remaining characters which are 014 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Sco 37, Crystal Plaza, Chhoti Baradari Part 1, Garha Road Jalandhar 144001.

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.