MICR Code: 221022006

Bank: Oriental Bank of Commerce
IFSC Code: Orbc0105223
MICR Code: 221022006
Address: Shop No 5-8, Grnd Floor, Dayal Towers, Varanasi, Varanasi
City: Varanasi
District: Varanasi
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 221022006.

  • In this case first three codes 221 is city code and it represents city Varanasi.
  • Next three characters 022 represents bank Oriental Bank of Commerce.
  • Remaining characters which are 006 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Shop No 5-8, Grnd Floor, Dayal Towers, Varanasi, Varanasi.

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.