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  7. MICR: 160014005

MICR Code: 160014005

Bank: Bank of Maharashtra
IFSC Code: Mahb0001359
MICR Code: 160014005
Address: Sco-307, Sector-38D Chandigarh-160038
City: Chandigarh
District: Chandigarh
State: Chandigarh

What is MICR Code?

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.

Details of MICR Code

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 160014005.

  • In this case first three codes 160 is city code and it represents city Chandigarh.
  • Next three characters 014 represents bank Bank of Maharashtra.
  • Remaining characters which are 005 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Sco-307, Sector-38D Chandigarh-160038.

How to find micr code (for example 160014005) from bank account number?

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.