MICR Code: 481014009

Bank: Bank of Maharashtra
IFSC Code: Mahb0000795
MICR Code: 481014009
Address: Post Khamaria, Khamaria Pin-481331
City: Surguja
District: Khamaria
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 481014009.

  • In this case first three codes 481 is city code and it represents city Surguja.
  • Next three characters 014 represents bank Bank of Maharashtra.
  • Remaining characters which are 009 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Post Khamaria, Khamaria Pin-481331.

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.