MICR Code: 172015052

Bank: Canara Bank
IFSC Code: Cnrb0005162
MICR Code: 172015052
Address: Canara Bank, Pangi Road, Recong Peo, Dist. Kinnaur - 172107
City: Recong Peo
District: Jangipara
State: Himachal 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 172015052.

  • In this case first three codes 172 is city code and it represents city Recong Peo.
  • Next three characters 015 represents bank Canara Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 052 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Canara Bank, Pangi Road, Recong Peo, Dist. Kinnaur - 172107.

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.