MICR Code: 172028053

Bank: UCO Bank
IFSC Code: Ucba0001416
MICR Code: 172028053
Address: Uco Banknathpajhulla 172115
City: Kinnaur
District: Nathpajhulla
State: Himachal 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 172028053.

  • In this case first three codes 172 is city code and it represents city Kinnaur.
  • Next three characters 028 represents bank UCO Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 053 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Uco Banknathpajhulla 172115.

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.