MICR Code: 560014005

Bank: Bank of Maharashtra
IFSC Code: Mahb0000538
MICR Code: 560014005
Address: 317-1, Pamp Mahakavi Road, Chamraj Peth, Bangalore 560 002
City: Bangalore Urban
District: Bangalore
State: Karnataka

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 560014005.

  • In this case first three codes 560 is city code and it represents city Bangalore Urban.
  • Next three characters 014 represents bank Bank of Maharashtra.
  • Remaining characters which are 005 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address 317-1, Pamp Mahakavi Road, Chamraj Peth, Bangalore 560 002.

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.