MICR Code: 151229552

Bank: ICICI Bank
IFSC Code: Icic0003579
MICR Code: 151229552
Address: Icici Bank Ltd Building No 214 Near Clock Tower Bhucho Mandi Bathinda
City: Bathinda
District: Bhucho Mandi
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 151229552.

  • 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 552 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Icici Bank Ltd Building No 214 Near Clock Tower Bhucho Mandi Bathinda.

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.