MICR Code: 144229852

Bank: ICICI Bank
IFSC Code: Icic0002166
MICR Code: 144229852
Address: Icici Bank Ltd., Block No.3, Near Bus Stand, Moga Road,┬ Áshahkot - 144702, Punjab
City: Jalandhar
District: Shahkot
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 144229852.

  • 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 852 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Icici Bank Ltd., Block No.3, Near Bus Stand, Moga Road,┬ Áshahkot - 144702, 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.