MICR Code: 145001546

Bank: State Bank of Patiala
IFSC Code: Stbp0001546
MICR Code: 145001546
Address: Near Busstand, G T Road, Vpo Mirthal, Dist Pathankot, Pin 145101
City: Pathankot
District: Mirthal
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 145001546.

  • In this case first three codes 145 is city code and it represents city Pathankot.
  • Next three characters 001 represents bank State Bank of Patiala.
  • Remaining characters which are 546 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Near Busstand, G T Road, Vpo Mirthal, Dist Pathankot, Pin 145101.

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.