MICR Code: 721014102

Bank: Bank of Maharashtra
IFSC Code: Mahb0001598
MICR Code: 721014102
Address: Civil Defence Road, Off Ot Main Road, P.O.- Inda, Kharagpur- 721305 West Bengal
City: Medinipur
District: Kharagpur
State: West Bengal

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 721014102.

  • In this case first three codes 721 is city code and it represents city Medinipur.
  • Next three characters 014 represents bank Bank of Maharashtra.
  • Remaining characters which are 102 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Civil Defence Road, Off Ot Main Road, P.O.- Inda, Kharagpur- 721305 West Bengal.

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.