MICR Code: 636015008

Bank: Canara Bank
IFSC Code: Cnrb0001048
MICR Code: 636015008
Address: No.152 A, New Road, Elampillai Village 637502.,
City: Salem
District: Elampillai
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 636015008.

  • In this case first three codes 636 is city code and it represents city Salem.
  • Next three characters 015 represents bank Canara Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 008 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address No.152 A, New Road, Elampillai Village 637502.,.

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.