MICR Code: 491014201

Bank: Bank of Maharashtra
IFSC Code: Mahb0001795
MICR Code: 491014201
Address: Chabda Plaza, Opposite To Talkies, Navin Market, Kawardha State Chhattisgarh Pin: 491995
City: Kawardha
District: Kawardha
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 491014201.

  • In this case first three codes 491 is city code and it represents city Kawardha.
  • Next three characters 014 represents bank Bank of Maharashtra.
  • Remaining characters which are 201 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Chabda Plaza, Opposite To Talkies, Navin Market, Kawardha State Chhattisgarh Pin: 491995.

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.