MICR Code: 140022059

Bank: Oriental Bank of Commerce
IFSC Code: Orbc0101912
MICR Code: 140022059
Address: Nalas Khurd , Po - Kotla,, Tehsil Rajpura , Distt - Patiala, Patiala
City: Patiala
District: Patiala
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 140022059.

  • In this case first three codes 140 is city code and it represents city Patiala.
  • Next three characters 022 represents bank Oriental Bank of Commerce.
  • Remaining characters which are 059 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Nalas Khurd , Po - Kotla,, Tehsil Rajpura , Distt - Patiala, Patiala.

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.