MICR Code: 600014008

Bank: Bank of Maharashtra
IFSC Code: Mahb0001205
MICR Code: 600014008
Address: 349, East Coast Road, Chennai - 600041
City: Chennai
District: Chennai
State: Tamil Nadu

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 600014008.

  • In this case first three codes 600 is city code and it represents city Chennai.
  • Next three characters 014 represents bank Bank of Maharashtra.
  • Remaining characters which are 008 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address 349, East Coast Road, Chennai - 600041.

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.