MICR Code: 600052019

Bank: Karnataka Bank
IFSC Code: Karb0000163
MICR Code: 600052019
Address: D/ No-3, Plot No.14, Sashi Nagar, Velachery Bye Pass Road, Velachery - 600042, Guindy Taluk, Chennai Dist.
City: Chennai
District: Velachery
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 600052019.

  • 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 019 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address D/ No-3, Plot No.14, Sashi Nagar, Velachery Bye Pass Road, Velachery - 600042, Guindy Taluk, Chennai Dist..

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.