MICR Code: 734816608

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 734816608.

  • In this case first three codes 734 is city code and it represents city Darjeeling.
  • Next three characters 816 represents bank The West Bengal State Cooperative Bank Ltd.
  • Remaining characters which are 608 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Mungpoo.

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.