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MICR Code: 700014001

Bank: Bank of Maharashtra
IFSC Code: Mahb0001125
MICR Code: 700014001
Address: Balmer Lawrie Bhawan 21 N R Road Kolkata -700001
City: Kolkata
District: Kolkata
State: West Bengal

What is MICR Code?

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.

Details of MICR Code

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 700014001.

  • In this case first three codes 700 is city code and it represents city Kolkata.
  • Next three characters 014 represents bank Bank of Maharashtra.
  • Remaining characters which are 001 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Balmer Lawrie Bhawan 21 N R Road Kolkata -700001.

How to find micr code (for example 700014001) from bank account number?

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.