MICR Code: 600015163

Bank: Canara Bank
IFSC Code: Cnrb0005893
MICR Code: 600015163
Address: Canara Bank No 10 Pallavan Nagar Main Road Chennai Maduravoyal Tamil Nadu 600095
City: Thiruvallur
District: Maduravayal
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 600015163.

  • In this case first three codes 600 is city code and it represents city Thiruvallur.
  • Next three characters 015 represents bank Canara Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 163 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Canara Bank No 10 Pallavan Nagar Main Road Chennai Maduravoyal Tamil Nadu 600095.

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.