MICR Code: 151022008

Bank: Oriental Bank of Commerce
IFSC Code: Orbc0100635
MICR Code: 151022008
Address: Ward No 7 Ganesh Mill Compound, Maur,, Maur
City: Maur
District: Maur
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 151022008.

  • In this case first three codes 151 is city code and it represents city Maur.
  • Next three characters 022 represents bank Oriental Bank of Commerce.
  • Remaining characters which are 008 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Ward No 7 Ganesh Mill Compound, Maur,, Maur.

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.