MICR Code: 600052018

Bank: Karnataka Bank
IFSC Code: Karb0000162
MICR Code: 600052018
Address: W-582 Ground Floorsboa School Roadannanagar West Extension Chennai, Pin - 600101
City: Chennai
District: Annanagar
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 600052018.

  • In this case first three codes 600 is city code and it represents city Chennai.
  • Next three characters 052 represents bank Karnataka Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 018 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address W-582 Ground Floorsboa School Roadannanagar West Extension Chennai, Pin - 600101.

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.