MICR Code: 400052003

Bank: Karnataka Bank
IFSC Code: Karb0000081
MICR Code: 400052003
Address: L I C Shopping Complex, Jeevan Bima Nagar, Borivli(W),P O Mandapeshwar, Mumbai, Pin - 400103
City: Mumbai
District: Mumbai
State: Maharashtra

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 400052003.

  • In this case first three codes 400 is city code and it represents city Mumbai.
  • Next three characters 052 represents bank Karnataka Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 003 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address L I C Shopping Complex, Jeevan Bima Nagar, Borivli(W),P O Mandapeshwar, Mumbai, Pin - 400103.

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.