MICR Code: 312022201

Bank: Oriental Bank of Commerce
IFSC Code: Orbc0101608
MICR Code: 312022201
Address: Obc, Mg Road Near Petrol Pump, Pratapgarh, Distt: Pratapgarh, Pratapgarh
City: Pratapgarh
District: Pratapgarh
State: Rajasthan

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 312022201.

  • In this case first three codes 312 is city code and it represents city Pratapgarh.
  • Next three characters 022 represents bank Oriental Bank of Commerce.
  • Remaining characters which are 201 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Obc, Mg Road Near Petrol Pump, Pratapgarh, Distt: Pratapgarh, Pratapgarh.

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.