MICR Code: 171028999

Bank: UCO Bank
IFSC Code: Ucba0002822
MICR Code: 171028999
Address: Chakkarshimla 171005
City: Simla
District: Simla
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 171028999.

  • In this case first three codes 171 is city code and it represents city Simla.
  • Next three characters 028 represents bank UCO Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 999 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Chakkarshimla 171005.

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.