MICR Code: 208049002

Bank: Federal Bank Ltd
IFSC Code: Fdrl0001230
MICR Code: 208049002
Address: 24/11 The Mall Post Box No. 484 Kanpur
City: Kanpur
District: Kanpur
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 208049002.

  • In this case first three codes 208 is city code and it represents city Kanpur.
  • Next three characters 049 represents bank Federal Bank Ltd.
  • Remaining characters which are 002 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address 24/11 The Mall Post Box No. 484 Kanpur.

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.