MICR Code: 261015001

Bank: Canara Bank
IFSC Code: Cnrb0003049
MICR Code: 261015001
Address: C/O Sri Balajee Sarees, Lal Bagh Crossing , Sitapur , Uttar Pradesh-261001
City: Sitapur
District: Sitapur
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 261015001.

  • In this case first three codes 261 is city code and it represents city Sitapur.
  • Next three characters 015 represents bank Canara Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 001 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address C/O Sri Balajee Sarees, Lal Bagh Crossing , Sitapur , Uttar Pradesh-261001.

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.