MICR Code: 712229202

Bank: ICICI Bank
IFSC Code: Icic0002609
MICR Code: 712229202
Address: Icici Bank Ltd Sahapur Chawalputti Tarakeswar Hooghly Pin-712410 West Bengal
City: Hugli
District: Tarakeswar
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 712229202.

  • In this case first three codes 712 is city code and it represents city Hugli.
  • Next three characters 229 represents bank ICICI Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 202 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Icici Bank Ltd Sahapur Chawalputti Tarakeswar Hooghly Pin-712410 West Bengal.

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.