MICR Code: 273015005

Bank: Canara Bank
IFSC Code: Cnrb0003686
MICR Code: 273015005
Address: Canara Bank, Ward No 10, Nagar Panchayat Taxi Stand, Gkp- Sosouli Road, Pipiganj, Dist: Gorakpur-273165 ( Up)
City: Gorakhpur
District: Peepiganj
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 273015005.

  • 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 005 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Canara Bank, Ward No 10, Nagar Panchayat Taxi Stand, Gkp- Sosouli Road, Pipiganj, Dist: Gorakpur-273165 ( Up).

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.