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  3. Canara Bank
  4. Uttar Pradesh
  5. Kanpur
  6. Kanpur City
  7. MICR: 208015006

MICR Code: 208015006

Bank: Canara Bank
IFSC Code: Cnrb0002355
MICR Code: 208015006
Address: 16 By 791, Civil Lines Kanpur
City: Kanpur City
District: Kanpur
State: Uttar Pradesh

What is MICR Code?

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.

Details of MICR Code

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 208015006.

  • In this case first three codes 208 is city code and it represents city Kanpur City.
  • Next three characters 015 represents bank Canara Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 006 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address 16 By 791, Civil Lines Kanpur.

How to find micr code (for example 208015006) from bank account number?

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.