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  7. MICR: 160229021

MICR Code: 160229021

Bank: ICICI Bank
IFSC Code: Icic0001343
MICR Code: 160229021
Address: Icici Bank Ltd., Sco 99-100, Ground Floor, Sector 17 B, Chandigarh-160017
City: Chandigarh
District: Chandigarh
State: Chandigarh

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 160229021.

  • In this case first three codes 160 is city code and it represents city Chandigarh.
  • Next three characters 229 represents bank ICICI Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 021 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Icici Bank Ltd., Sco 99-100, Ground Floor, Sector 17 B, Chandigarh-160017.

How to find micr code (for example 160229021) 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.