MICR Code: 523015682

Bank: Canara Bank
IFSC Code: Cnrb0005733
MICR Code: 523015682
Address: Canara Bank Main Trunk Road Beside Pdcc Bank Lt Opp New Post Off Bldg Prakasam Dist Singarayakonda Andhra Pradesh 523101
City: Prakasam
District: Singarayakonda
State: Andhra 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 523015682.

  • In this case first three codes 523 is city code and it represents city Prakasam.
  • Next three characters 015 represents bank Canara Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 682 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Canara Bank Main Trunk Road Beside Pdcc Bank Lt Opp New Post Off Bldg Prakasam Dist Singarayakonda Andhra Pradesh 523101.

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.