MICR Code: 144014102

Bank: Bank of Maharashtra
IFSC Code: Mahb0001493
MICR Code: 144014102
Address: Main Jalandhar Road, Near Taj Residency Hotel, Kapurthala
City: Kapurthala
District: Kapurthala
State: Punjab

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 144014102.

  • In this case first three codes 144 is city code and it represents city Kapurthala.
  • Next three characters 014 represents bank Bank of Maharashtra.
  • Remaining characters which are 102 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Main Jalandhar Road, Near Taj Residency Hotel, Kapurthala.

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.