MICR Code: 721026701

Bank: Union Bank of India
IFSC Code: Ubin0546577
MICR Code: 721026701
Address: At Post Shyamsunderpur Patna Via Panskura Dist. Midnapur West Bengal Pin 721169
City: East Medinipur
District: Shyamchandpur
State: West Bengal

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 721026701.

  • In this case first three codes 721 is city code and it represents city East Medinipur.
  • Next three characters 026 represents bank Union Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 701 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address At Post Shyamsunderpur Patna Via Panskura Dist. Midnapur West Bengal Pin 721169.

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.