MICR Code: 700015002

Bank: Canara Bank
IFSC Code: Cnrb0001747
MICR Code: 700015002
Address: No 7, Red Cross Place , Kolkata - 700001
City: Kolkata
District: Kolkata
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 700015002.

  • In this case first three codes 700 is city code and it represents city Kolkata.
  • Next three characters 015 represents bank Canara Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 002 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address No 7, Red Cross Place , Kolkata - 700001.

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.