MICR Code: 493015504

Bank: Canara Bank
IFSC Code: Cnrb0005264
MICR Code: 493015504
Address: Canara Bank Ward No 8 Main Road Jawahar Chowk Bagbahara Chattisgarh
City: Mahasamund
District: Bagbahara
State: Chandigarh

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 493015504.

  • In this case first three codes 493 is city code and it represents city Mahasamund.
  • Next three characters 015 represents bank Canara Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 504 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Canara Bank Ward No 8 Main Road Jawahar Chowk Bagbahara Chattisgarh.

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.