MICR Code: 600013004

Bank: Bank of India
IFSC Code: Bkid0008009
MICR Code: 600013004
Address: Old No. 17/ New No. 56 Casa Major Road, Egmore,
City: Chennai
District: Chennai
State: Tamil Nadu

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 600013004.

  • In this case first three codes 600 is city code and it represents city Chennai.
  • Next three characters 013 represents bank Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 004 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Old No. 17/ New No. 56 Casa Major Road, Egmore,.

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.