MICR Code: 160028011

Bank: UCO Bank
IFSC Code: Ucba0001939
MICR Code: 160028011
Address: Uco Banksector 35 B 160035
City: Chandigarh
District: Chandigarh
State: Chandigarh

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 160028011.

  • In this case first three codes 160 is city code and it represents city Chandigarh.
  • Next three characters 028 represents bank UCO Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 011 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Uco Banksector 35 B 160035.

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.