MICR Code: 144013008

Bank: Bank of India
IFSC Code: Bkid0006403
MICR Code: 144013008
Address: 22, Shakti Nagarbasti Road,
City: Jallandhar
District: Jallandhar
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 144013008.

  • In this case first three codes 144 is city code and it represents city Jallandhar.
  • Next three characters 013 represents bank Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 008 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address 22, Shakti Nagarbasti 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.