MICR Code: 148022402

Bank: Oriental Bank of Commerce
IFSC Code: Orbc0100594
MICR Code: 148022402
Address: Kacha College Road, Barnala, Dist. Sangrur, Barnala
City: Barnala
District: Barnala
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 148022402.

  • In this case first three codes 148 is city code and it represents city Barnala.
  • Next three characters 022 represents bank Oriental Bank of Commerce.
  • Remaining characters which are 402 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Kacha College Road, Barnala, Dist. Sangrur, Barnala.

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.