MICR Code: 495014079

Bank: Bank of Maharashtra
IFSC Code: Mahb0001550
MICR Code: 495014079
Address: Nr Raghuraj Singh Stadium Link Road Bilaspur Cg
City: Bilaspur
District: Bilaspur
State: Chandigarh

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 495014079.

  • In this case first three codes 495 is city code and it represents city Bilaspur.
  • Next three characters 014 represents bank Bank of Maharashtra.
  • Remaining characters which are 079 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Nr Raghuraj Singh Stadium Link Road Bilaspur Cg.

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.