MICR Code: 147229203

Bank: ICICI Bank
IFSC Code: Icic0003143
MICR Code: 147229203
Address: Icici Bank Ltd Village Dhanauri Po Karhali Sahib Tehsil Samana Distt. Patiala Punjab
City: Patiala
District: Ludhiana
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 147229203.

  • In this case first three codes 147 is city code and it represents city Patiala.
  • Next three characters 229 represents bank ICICI Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 203 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Icici Bank Ltd Village Dhanauri Po Karhali Sahib Tehsil Samana Distt. Patiala Punjab.

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.