MICR Code: 151229002

Bank: ICICI Bank
IFSC Code: Icic0000556
MICR Code: 151229002
Address: Icici Bank Ltd., 174, Military Hospital, Bathinda Military Station, Bhatinda, Punjab. 151005
City: Bathinda
District: Bathinda
State: Punjab

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 151229002.

  • In this case first three codes 151 is city code and it represents city Bathinda.
  • Next three characters 229 represents bank ICICI Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 002 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Icici Bank Ltd., 174, Military Hospital, Bathinda Military Station, Bhatinda, Punjab. 151005.

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.