MICR Code: 148013402

Bank: Bank of India
IFSC Code: Bkid0006580
MICR Code: 148013402
Address: College Road, Near Old Bus Standdistt Barnala
City: Barnala
District: Barnala
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 148013402.

  • In this case first three codes 148 is city code and it represents city Barnala.
  • Next three characters 013 represents bank Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 402 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address College Road, Near Old Bus Standdistt Barnala.

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.