MICR Code: 208012029

Bank: Bank of Baroda
IFSC Code: Barb0saprbs
MICR Code: 208012029
Address: Sarai Branch, Sarai Maswanpur, Kanpur,208017
City: Kanpur
District: Kanpur
State: Uttar Pradesh

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 208012029.

  • In this case first three codes 208 is city code and it represents city Kanpur.
  • Next three characters 012 represents bank Bank of Baroda.
  • Remaining characters which are 029 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Sarai Branch, Sarai Maswanpur, Kanpur,208017.

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.