MICR Code: 721015901

Bank: Canara Bank
IFSC Code: Cnrb0005192
MICR Code: 721015901
Address: Canara Bank, Vil And Po Amtolia, Di- Purba Medinipur, Contai, Amtalia, West Bengal Pin 721421
City: Purba Medinipur
District: Contai
State: West Bengal

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 721015901.

  • In this case first three codes 721 is city code and it represents city Purba Medinipur.
  • Next three characters 015 represents bank Canara Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 901 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Canara Bank, Vil And Po Amtolia, Di- Purba Medinipur, Contai, Amtalia, West Bengal Pin 721421.

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.