MICR Code: 160229035

Bank: ICICI Bank
IFSC Code: Icic0002511
MICR Code: 160229035
Address: Icici Bank Ltd., Scf 5, Sector 2, Urban Estate, Panchkula - 134112, Haryana
City: Panchkula
District: Panchkula
State: Haryana

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 160229035.

  • In this case first three codes 160 is city code and it represents city Panchkula.
  • Next three characters 229 represents bank ICICI Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 035 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Icici Bank Ltd., Scf 5, Sector 2, Urban Estate, Panchkula - 134112, Haryana.

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.