MICR Code: 140028153
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 140028153.
- In this case first three codes 140 is city code and it represents city Rupnagar.
- Next three characters 028 represents bank UCO Bank.
- Remaining characters which are 153 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Vill Dumewal, Po Jhajvia Nurpur Bedi, Ropar 140117.
The easiest way to find MICR code is to check your
- Bank account statement
- Cheques
Please examine below sample cheque for more details
I hope this clears doubts.