MICR Code: 221019002

Bank: Indian Bank
IFSC Code: Idib000v009
MICR Code: 221019002
Address: No.C-7/34-B, Lahurabirvaranasi 221001
City: Varanasi
District: Varanasi
State: Uttar Pradesh

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 221019002.

  • In this case first three codes 221 is city code and it represents city Varanasi.
  • Next three characters 019 represents bank Indian Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 002 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address No.C-7/34-B, Lahurabirvaranasi 221001.

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.