MICR Code: 144007604

Bank: State Bank of Patiala
IFSC Code: Stbp0001547
MICR Code: 144007604
Address: Vpo Sunner Kalan, Tehsil Phillaur, District Jalandhar, Punjab
City: Jalandhar
District: Phillaur
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 144007604.

  • 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 604 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Vpo Sunner Kalan, Tehsil Phillaur, District Jalandhar, Punjab.

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.