MICR Code: 400014164

Bank: Bank of Maharashtra
IFSC Code: Mahb0001674
MICR Code: 400014164
Address: Shop No 5/ 6, Prathamesh Pride, Sector 19, Ulawe, Tal Panvel Dist Raigad
City: Raigad
District: Panvel
State: Maharashtra

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 400014164.

  • In this case first three codes 400 is city code and it represents city Raigad.
  • Next three characters 014 represents bank Bank of Maharashtra.
  • Remaining characters which are 164 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Shop No 5/ 6, Prathamesh Pride, Sector 19, Ulawe, Tal Panvel Dist Raigad.

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.