MICR Code: 273014003

Bank: Bank of Maharashtra
IFSC Code: Mahb0001692
MICR Code: 273014003
Address: Main Market, At Post - Sahjanwa, Distt - Gorakhpur - 273209 Uttar Pradesh
City: Gorakhpur
District: Sahjanwa
State: Uttar Pradesh

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 273014003.

  • In this case first three codes 273 is city code and it represents city Gorakhpur.
  • Next three characters 014 represents bank Bank of Maharashtra.
  • Remaining characters which are 003 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Main Market, At Post - Sahjanwa, Distt - Gorakhpur - 273209 Uttar Pradesh.

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.