MICR Code: 143022203

Bank: Oriental Bank of Commerce
IFSC Code: Orbc0101787
MICR Code: 143022203
Address: Kahnuwan,, Distt. Gurdaspur, Gurdaspur
City: Gurdaspur
District: Gurdaspur
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 143022203.

  • In this case first three codes 143 is city code and it represents city Gurdaspur.
  • Next three characters 022 represents bank Oriental Bank of Commerce.
  • Remaining characters which are 203 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Kahnuwan,, Distt. Gurdaspur, Gurdaspur.

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.