MICR Code: 249015006

Bank: Canara Bank
IFSC Code: Cnrb0005494
MICR Code: 249015006
Address: Prem Nagar Ashram Haridwar Road Haridwar
City: Haridwar
District: Hardwar
State: Uttarakhand

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 249015006.

  • In this case first three codes 249 is city code and it represents city Haridwar.
  • Next three characters 015 represents bank Canara Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 006 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Prem Nagar Ashram Haridwar Road Haridwar.

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.