MICR Code: 140022202

Bank: Oriental Bank of Commerce
IFSC Code: Orbc0100879
MICR Code: 140022202
Address: Bhagat Ravi Dass Chowk,, Anandpur Sahib,, Ropar
City: Ropar
District: Ropar
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 140022202.

  • In this case first three codes 140 is city code and it represents city Ropar.
  • Next three characters 022 represents bank Oriental Bank of Commerce.
  • Remaining characters which are 202 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Bhagat Ravi Dass Chowk,, Anandpur Sahib,, Ropar.

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.