MICR Code: 700229030

Bank: ICICI Bank
IFSC Code: Icic0000982
MICR Code: 700229030
Address: Icici Bank Ltd., 20/A New G.T. Road, Uttarpara, Hooghly. 712 258
City: Hugli
District: Uttarpara Kotrung
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 700229030.

  • In this case first three codes 700 is city code and it represents city Hugli.
  • Next three characters 229 represents bank ICICI Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 030 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Icici Bank Ltd., 20/A New G.T. Road, Uttarpara, Hooghly. 712 258.

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.