MICR Code: 151029102

Bank: Vijaya Bank
IFSC Code: Vijb0007531
MICR Code: 151029102
Address: Faridkot, Kotakpura Road, Near Harindra Nagar Gate,, Faridkot, Punjab, Faridkot, Punjab
City: Faridkot
District: Faridkot
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 151029102.

  • In this case first three codes 151 is city code and it represents city Faridkot.
  • Next three characters 029 represents bank Vijaya Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 102 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Faridkot, Kotakpura Road, Near Harindra Nagar Gate,, Faridkot, Punjab, Faridkot, 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.