MICR Code: 144229009

Bank: ICICI Bank
IFSC Code: Icic0002176
MICR Code: 144229009
Address: Icici Bank Ltd, Guru Nanak Complex, Hoshiarpur Road, Rama Mandi, Jalandhar -144005
City: Jalandhar
District: Jalandhar
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 144229009.

  • In this case first three codes 144 is city code and it represents city Jalandhar.
  • Next three characters 229 represents bank ICICI Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 009 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Icici Bank Ltd, Guru Nanak Complex, Hoshiarpur Road, Rama Mandi, Jalandhar -144005.

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.