MICR Code: 700229024
| Bank: ICICI Bank |
| IFSC Code: Icic0000540 |
| MICR Code: 700229024 |
| Address: 140/1, Prince Anwar Shah Road 700045 |
| City: Kolkata |
| District: Kolkata |
| State: West Bengal |
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 700229024.
- In this case first three codes 700 is city code and it represents city Kolkata.
- Next three characters 229 represents bank ICICI Bank.
- Remaining characters which are 024 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address 140/1, Prince Anwar Shah Road 700045.
The easiest way to find MICR code is to check your
- Bank account statement
- Cheques
Please examine below sample cheque for more details
I hope this clears doubts.