MICR Code: 151211886
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 151211886.
- In this case first three codes 151 is city code and it represents city Faridkot.
- Next three characters 211 represents bank Axis Bank.
- Remaining characters which are 886 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Ground Floor, Khewat/ Khatauni No. 344/757, Khasra No.1189 (24-0), Hadbast No. 59, Village : Mehmuana, Tehsil And Dist: Faridkot, Punjab, Pin 151203.
The easiest way to find MICR code is to check your
- Bank account statement
- Cheques
Please examine below sample cheque for more details

I hope this clears doubts.