MICR Code: 273015008

Bank: Canara Bank
IFSC Code: Cnrb0005128
MICR Code: 273015008
Address: Canara Bank Azad Chowk Near Taramandal Road, Distt Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh Pin Code 273001
City: Gorakhpur
District: Gorakhpur
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 273015008.

  • In this case first three codes 273 is city code and it represents city Gorakhpur.
  • Next three characters 015 represents bank Canara Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 008 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Canara Bank Azad Chowk Near Taramandal Road, Distt Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh Pin Code 273001.

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.