MICR Code: 496015502

Bank: Canara Bank
IFSC Code: Cnrb0005535
MICR Code: 496015502
Address: Canara Bank Near M G Govt College Raigarh Road Kharsia Chattisgarh 496661
City: Raigarh
District: Kharsia
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 496015502.

  • In this case first three codes 496 is city code and it represents city Raigarh.
  • Next three characters 015 represents bank Canara Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 502 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Canara Bank Near M G Govt College Raigarh Road Kharsia Chattisgarh 496661.

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.