MICR Code: 609015202

Bank: Canara Bank
IFSC Code: Cnrb0005232
MICR Code: 609015202
Address: South Car Street Sirkazhi
City: Nagapattinam
District: Nagapattinam
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 609015202.

  • In this case first three codes 609 is city code and it represents city Nagapattinam.
  • Next three characters 015 represents bank Canara Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 202 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address South Car Street Sirkazhi.

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.