MICR Code: 174028162

Bank: UCO Bank
IFSC Code: Ucba0001096
MICR Code: 174028162
Address: Uco Bankswarghat 174011
City: Bilaspur
District: Swarghat
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 174028162.

  • In this case first three codes 174 is city code and it represents city Bilaspur.
  • Next three characters 028 represents bank UCO Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 162 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Uco Bankswarghat 174011.

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.