MICR Code: 700012059

Bank: Bank of Baroda
IFSC Code: Barb0howecx
MICR Code: 700012059
Address: M.G. Road Branch , Howrah Dist- Howrah
City: Howrah
District: Howrah
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 700012059.

  • In this case first three codes 700 is city code and it represents city Howrah.
  • Next three characters 012 represents bank Bank of Baroda.
  • Remaining characters which are 059 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address M.G. Road Branch , Howrah Dist- Howrah.

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.