MICR Code: 148229253

Bank: ICICI Bank
IFSC Code: Icic0003584
MICR Code: 148229253
Address: Icici Bank Ltd Near Telephone Exchange Opposite Market Committee Office Lehragaga-148031
City: Sangrur
District: Lehragaga
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 148229253.

  • In this case first three codes 148 is city code and it represents city Sangrur.
  • Next three characters 229 represents bank ICICI Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 253 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Icici Bank Ltd Near Telephone Exchange Opposite Market Committee Office Lehragaga-148031.

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.