MICR Code: 600015042

Bank: Canara Bank
IFSC Code: Cnrb0000916
MICR Code: 600015042
Address: 85-A, Thiruvottiyur High Road,, Kaladipet, Thiruvottiyur,, Chennai 600 019
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 600015042.

  • 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 042 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address 85-A, Thiruvottiyur High Road,, Kaladipet, Thiruvottiyur,, Chennai 600 019.

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.