MICR Code: 148022017

Bank: Oriental Bank of Commerce
IFSC Code: Orbc0101734
MICR Code: 148022017
Address: Main Bazar, Khanauri, Distt- Sangrur,, Sangrur
City: Sangrur
District: Sangrur
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 148022017.

  • In this case first three codes 148 is city code and it represents city Sangrur.
  • Next three characters 022 represents bank Oriental Bank of Commerce.
  • Remaining characters which are 017 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Main Bazar, Khanauri, Distt- Sangrur,, Sangrur.

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.