MICR Code: 630229501

Bank: ICICI Bank
IFSC Code: Icic0006127
MICR Code: 630229501
Address: S. Sokkanathapuram┬Á
City: Sivaganga
District: Shanmuganathapuram
State: Tamil Nadu

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 630229501.

  • In this case first three codes 630 is city code and it represents city Sivaganga.
  • Next three characters 229 represents bank ICICI Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 501 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address S. Sokkanathapuram┬Á.

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.