MICR Code: 145810002
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 145810002.
- In this case first three codes 145 is city code and it represents city Pathankot.
- Next three characters 810 represents bank IDBI Bank.
- Remaining characters which are 002 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address The Hindu Cooperative Bank Ltd. Dalhousie Road Pathankot-145001.
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.