MICR Code: 721013251

Bank: Bank of India
IFSC Code: Bkid0004388
MICR Code: 721013251
Address: At- Raghunathpur, Near Canal Par/ Police Pharipo+ Ps- Jhargram, Dist- West Midnapore
City: Jhargram (West Bengal)
District: Jhargram (West Bengal)
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 721013251.

  • In this case first three codes 721 is city code and it represents city Jhargram (West Bengal).
  • Next three characters 013 represents bank Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 251 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address At- Raghunathpur, Near Canal Par/ Police Pharipo+ Ps- Jhargram, Dist- West Midnapore.

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.