MICR Code: 228015999

Bank: Canara Bank
IFSC Code: Cnrb0001846
MICR Code: 228015999
Address: Vilage & Po Kurwar, Dist Sulthanpur, ( Up) - 228 155
City: Sultanpur
District: Kurwar
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 228015999.

  • In this case first three codes 228 is city code and it represents city Sultanpur.
  • Next three characters 015 represents bank Canara Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 999 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Vilage & Po Kurwar, Dist Sulthanpur, ( Up) - 228 155.

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.