MICR Code: 143013012

Bank: Bank of India
IFSC Code: Bkid0006312
MICR Code: 143013012
Address: Khandwala Chowknear Ocm Mills Gt Road
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 143013012.

  • In this case first three codes 143 is city code and it represents city Amritsar.
  • Next three characters 013 represents bank Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 012 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Khandwala Chowknear Ocm Mills Gt Road.

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.