MICR Code: 495014501

Bank: Bank of Maharashtra
IFSC Code: Mahb0001855
MICR Code: 495014501
Address: Hapa Road, Sakri Teh. Takhatpur Dist. Bilaspur State Chhattisgarh Pin 495006
City: Bilaspur
District: Sakri
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 495014501.

  • 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 501 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Hapa Road, Sakri Teh. Takhatpur Dist. Bilaspur State Chhattisgarh Pin 495006.

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.