MICR Code: 688229252

Bank: ICICI Bank
IFSC Code: Icic0001157
MICR Code: 688229252
Address: Icici Bank Ltd., Salu Shopping Complex, X Ray Junction, Cherthala - 688524 , Alapurzha Dist., Kerala.
City: Alapuzha
District: Cherthala
State: Kerala

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 688229252.

  • In this case first three codes 688 is city code and it represents city Alapuzha.
  • Next three characters 229 represents bank ICICI Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 252 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Icici Bank Ltd., Salu Shopping Complex, X Ray Junction, Cherthala - 688524 , Alapurzha Dist., Kerala..

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.