MICR Code: 262849802

Bank: Almora Urban Co-Operative Bank ltd
IFSC Code: Aucb0000006
MICR Code: 262849802
Address: Gandhi Chowk , Pithoragarh
City: Pithoragarh
District: Pithoragarh
State: Uttarakhand

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 262849802.

  • In this case first three codes 262 is city code and it represents city Pithoragarh.
  • Next three characters 849 represents bank Almora Urban Co-Operative Bank ltd.
  • Remaining characters which are 802 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Gandhi Chowk , Pithoragarh.

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.