MICR Code: 211022003

Bank: Oriental Bank of Commerce
IFSC Code: Orbc0100908
MICR Code: 211022003
Address: 34, Csp Singh Marg,, Near Circuit House, Allahabad
City: Allahabad
District: Allahabad
State: Uttar Pradesh

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 211022003.

  • In this case first three codes 211 is city code and it represents city Allahabad.
  • Next three characters 022 represents bank Oriental Bank of Commerce.
  • Remaining characters which are 003 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address 34, Csp Singh Marg,, Near Circuit House, Allahabad.

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.