MICR Code: 495015005

Bank: Canara Bank
IFSC Code: Cnrb0005979
MICR Code: 495015005
Address: Canara Bank Pratap Chowk Saraswati Nagar Main Road Vyapar Vihar Biaspur Bilaspur Chattisgarh 495001
City: Bilaspur
District: Bilaspur
State: Chhattisgarh

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 495015005.

  • In this case first three codes 495 is city code and it represents city Bilaspur.
  • Next three characters 015 represents bank Canara Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 005 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Canara Bank Pratap Chowk Saraswati Nagar Main Road Vyapar Vihar Biaspur Bilaspur Chattisgarh 495001.

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.