MICR Code: 211015012

Bank: Canara Bank
IFSC Code: Cnrb0005645
MICR Code: 211015012
Address: 135B, Lookarganj, Allahabad 211001
City: Allahabad
District: Allahabad
State: Uttar Pradesh

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 211015012.

  • In this case first three codes 211 is city code and it represents city Allahabad.
  • Next three characters 015 represents bank Canara Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 012 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address 135B, Lookarganj, Allahabad 211001.

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.