MICR Code: 577052551

Bank: Karnataka Bank
IFSC Code: Karb0000708
MICR Code: 577052551
Address: Bharathi Street, Sringeri, Pin - 577139
City: Chickmagalur
District: Sringeri
State: Karnataka

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 577052551.

  • In this case first three codes 577 is city code and it represents city Chickmagalur.
  • Next three characters 052 represents bank Karnataka Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 551 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Bharathi Street, Sringeri, Pin - 577139.

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.