MICR Code: 140029407

Bank: Vijaya Bank
IFSC Code: Vijb0007532
MICR Code: 140029407
Address: Fatehgarh Sahib Branch, Sco 6, Pearl Enclave, Chandigarh Road,, Fatehgarh Sahib, Fatehgarh Sahib, Punjab, Punjab
City: Fatehgarh Sahib,Punjab
District: Fatehgarh Sahib,Punjab
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 140029407.

  • In this case first three codes 140 is city code and it represents city Fatehgarh Sahib,Punjab.
  • Next three characters 029 represents bank Vijaya Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 407 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Fatehgarh Sahib Branch, Sco 6, Pearl Enclave, Chandigarh Road,, Fatehgarh Sahib, Fatehgarh Sahib, Punjab, 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.