MICR Code: 160028019

Bank: UCO Bank
IFSC Code: Ucba0002190
MICR Code: 160028019
Address: Sector-7 Near Policestn. 140301
City: Rupnagar
District: Kharar
State: Punjab

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 160028019.

  • In this case first three codes 160 is city code and it represents city Rupnagar.
  • Next three characters 028 represents bank UCO Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 019 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Sector-7 Near Policestn. 140301.

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.