MICR Code: 160229009

Bank: ICICI Bank
IFSC Code: Icic0000499
MICR Code: 160229009
Address: Mauza Chak Jangi, Tehsil- Nalagarh, Near Baddi Bus Stand, Nalagarh Road, Baddi, Distt- Solan, Hp-173205
City: Solan
District: Baddi
State: Himachal Pradesh

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 160229009.

  • In this case first three codes 160 is city code and it represents city Solan.
  • Next three characters 229 represents bank ICICI Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 009 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Mauza Chak Jangi, Tehsil- Nalagarh, Near Baddi Bus Stand, Nalagarh Road, Baddi, Distt- Solan, Hp-173205.

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.