MICR Code: 143012006

Bank: Bank of Baroda
IFSC Code: Barb0praamr
MICR Code: 143012006
Address: Pratapnagar Branch, Plot No.1, Pratapnagar,G.T. Road, Amritsar, Amritsar,143006
City: Amritsar
District: Amritsar
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 143012006.

  • In this case first three codes 143 is city code and it represents city Amritsar.
  • Next three characters 012 represents bank Bank of Baroda.
  • Remaining characters which are 006 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Pratapnagar Branch, Plot No.1, Pratapnagar,G.T. Road, Amritsar, Amritsar,143006.

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.