MICR Code: 208022005
| Bank: Oriental Bank of Commerce |
| IFSC Code: Orbc0100945 |
| MICR Code: 208022005 |
| Address: Landmark Hotel, Head Post Office,, Naveen Market, Kanpur 208001, Kanpur |
| City: Kanpur |
| District: Kanpur |
| 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 208022005.
- In this case first three codes 208 is city code and it represents city Kanpur.
- Next three characters 022 represents bank Oriental Bank of Commerce.
- Remaining characters which are 005 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Landmark Hotel, Head Post Office,, Naveen Market, Kanpur 208001, Kanpur.
The easiest way to find MICR code is to check your
- Bank account statement
- Cheques
Please examine below sample cheque for more details
I hope this clears doubts.