MICR Code: 495229006

Bank: ICICI Bank
IFSC Code: Icic0002425
MICR Code: 495229006
Address: Icici Bank Ltd., Ward No.36, Vivekanand Nagar, Block Tahsil R.I. Circle, Guru Nanak Chowk, Bilaspur - 495004, Chhattisgarh
City: Bilaspur
District: Bilaspur
State: Chandigarh

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 495229006.

  • In this case first three codes 495 is city code and it represents city Bilaspur.
  • Next three characters 229 represents bank ICICI Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 006 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Icici Bank Ltd., Ward No.36, Vivekanand Nagar, Block Tahsil R.I. Circle, Guru Nanak Chowk, Bilaspur - 495004, Chhattisgarh.

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.