MICR Code: 147022252

Bank: Oriental Bank of Commerce
IFSC Code: Orbc0101488
MICR Code: 147022252
Address: Nr Lok Sewak Filling Station, Amloh Mandi, Gobindgarh By- Pass, Disst- Fatehgarh Sahib,, Amloh
City: Amloh
District: Amloh
State: Punjab

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 147022252.

  • In this case first three codes 147 is city code and it represents city Amloh.
  • Next three characters 022 represents bank Oriental Bank of Commerce.
  • Remaining characters which are 252 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Nr Lok Sewak Filling Station, Amloh Mandi, Gobindgarh By- Pass, Disst- Fatehgarh Sahib,, Amloh.

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.