MICR Code: 144015927

Bank: Canara Bank
IFSC Code: Cnrb0004601
MICR Code: 144015927
Address: Ward No 13, Gt Road To Hoshiarpur, Saina Balachur 144521 Distt.- Nawashahar
City: Nawanshahr
District: Balachaur
State: Punjab

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 144015927.

  • In this case first three codes 144 is city code and it represents city Nawanshahr.
  • Next three characters 015 represents bank Canara Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 927 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Ward No 13, Gt Road To Hoshiarpur, Saina Balachur 144521 Distt.- Nawashahar.

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.