MICR Code: 636017005

Bank: Corporation Bank
IFSC Code: Corp0000243
MICR Code: 636017005
Address: 4/42 Main Road, Pb No.14, Vembadithalam 637504
City: Salem
District: Vembadithalam
State: Tamil Nadu

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 636017005.

  • In this case first three codes 636 is city code and it represents city Salem.
  • Next three characters 017 represents bank Corporation Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 005 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address 4/42 Main Road, Pb No.14, Vembadithalam 637504.

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.