MICR Code: 444014202

Bank: Bank of Maharashtra
IFSC Code: Mahb0000279
MICR Code: 444014202
Address: Ramkrishna Bhavan Raviwar Bazar Washim
City: Washim
District: Washim
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 444014202.

  • In this case first three codes 444 is city code and it represents city Washim.
  • Next three characters 014 represents bank Bank of Maharashtra.
  • Remaining characters which are 202 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Ramkrishna Bhavan Raviwar Bazar Washim.

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.