MICR Code: 700211040

Bank: Axis Bank
IFSC Code: Utib0000548
MICR Code: 700211040
Address: Basirhat Municipality Office, Opp Basirhat College, Dist 24 Paraganas, Basirhat 743 412
City: South 24 Parganas
District: Basirhat
State: West Bengal

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 700211040.

  • In this case first three codes 700 is city code and it represents city South 24 Parganas.
  • Next three characters 211 represents bank Axis Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 040 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Basirhat Municipality Office, Opp Basirhat College, Dist 24 Paraganas, Basirhat 743 412.

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.