MICR Code: 831229006

Bank: ICICI Bank
IFSC Code: Icic0001657
MICR Code: 831229006
Address: Icici Bank Ltd., Awas Crystal Contractor India, Near Tulsi Bhavan, Bistupur, Jamshedpur - 831001, Jharkhand
City: Purbi Singhbhum
District: Jamshedpur
State: Jharkhand

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 831229006.

  • In this case first three codes 831 is city code and it represents city Purbi Singhbhum.
  • 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., Awas Crystal Contractor India, Near Tulsi Bhavan, Bistupur, Jamshedpur - 831001, Jharkhand.

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.