MICR Code: 496229001

Bank: ICICI Bank
IFSC Code: Icic0000926
MICR Code: 496229001
Address: Icici Bank Ltd., Modi Complex & Regency, Jagatpur Road, Raigarh, Chhatisgarh. 496 001
City: Raigarh
District: Raigarh
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 496229001.

  • In this case first three codes 496 is city code and it represents city Raigarh.
  • Next three characters 229 represents bank ICICI Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 001 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Icici Bank Ltd., Modi Complex & Regency, Jagatpur Road, Raigarh, Chhatisgarh. 496 001.

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.