MICR Code: 141259005
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 141259005.
- In this case first three codes 141 is city code and it represents city Ludhiana.
- Next three characters 259 represents bank IDBI Bank.
- Remaining characters which are 005 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Janak Towers┬ Ágovt College Road┬ Ácivil Lines┬ Áludhiana┬ Ápunjab┬Á141001┬Á.
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.