MICR Code: 140229406

Bank: ICICI Bank
IFSC Code: Icic0001506
MICR Code: 140229406
Address: Icici Bank Ltd., Bassi Road, Opp Baba Zoravar Singh School, Jyoti Swaroop Chowk, Sirhind- 140406, Fatehgarh Sahib Dist., Punjab
City: Fatehgarh Sahib
District: Sirhind
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 140229406.

  • In this case first three codes 140 is city code and it represents city Fatehgarh Sahib.
  • Next three characters 229 represents bank ICICI Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 406 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Icici Bank Ltd., Bassi Road, Opp Baba Zoravar Singh School, Jyoti Swaroop Chowk, Sirhind- 140406, Fatehgarh Sahib Dist., 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.