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  7. MICR: 700012073

MICR Code: 700012073

Bank: Bank of Baroda
IFSC Code: Barb0gensal
MICR Code: 700012073
Address: Dn-14, Sector - V, Salt Lake City, Kolkata, West Bengal - 700 091.
City: Kolkata
District: Kolkata
State: West Bengal

What is MICR Code?

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.

Details of MICR Code

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 700012073.

  • In this case first three codes 700 is city code and it represents city Kolkata.
  • Next three characters 012 represents bank Bank of Baroda.
  • Remaining characters which are 073 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Dn-14, Sector - V, Salt Lake City, Kolkata, West Bengal - 700 091..

How to find micr code (for example 700012073) from bank account number?

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.