MICR Code: 600015012

Bank: Canara Bank
IFSC Code: Cnrb0000932
MICR Code: 600015012
Address: 20, Sait Colony, 1 St Street, Egmore Chennai 600 008
City: Chennai
District: Chennai
State: Tamil Nadu

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 600015012.

  • In this case first three codes 600 is city code and it represents city Chennai.
  • Next three characters 015 represents bank Canara Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 012 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address 20, Sait Colony, 1 St Street, Egmore Chennai 600 008.

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.