MICR Code: 143022030

Bank: Oriental Bank of Commerce
IFSC Code: Orbc0101579
MICR Code: 143022030
Address: Batala Road, Verka, Amritsar 143501, 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 143022030.

  • 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 030 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Batala Road, Verka, Amritsar 143501, 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.