MICR Code: 143022015

Bank: Oriental Bank of Commerce
IFSC Code: Orbc0100977
MICR Code: 143022015
Address: Plot No. 10, Distt. Shopping Complex,, Ranjit Avenue, Amritsar-143001., Amritsar
City: Amritsar
District: Amritsar
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 143022015.

  • In this case first three codes 143 is city code and it represents city Amritsar.
  • Next three characters 022 represents bank Oriental Bank of Commerce.
  • Remaining characters which are 015 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Plot No. 10, Distt. Shopping Complex,, Ranjit Avenue, Amritsar-143001., Amritsar.

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.