MICR Code: 517053003

Bank: Karur Vysya Bank Limited
IFSC Code: Kvbl0001440
MICR Code: 517053003
Address: 18-3-53/11 Khadhi Colony, Shanthi Nagar, Tirupathi-517501
City: Chittor
District: Tirupati
State: Andhra 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 517053003.

  • In this case first three codes 517 is city code and it represents city Chittor.
  • Next three characters 053 represents bank Karur Vysya Bank Limited.
  • Remaining characters which are 003 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address 18-3-53/11 Khadhi Colony, Shanthi Nagar, Tirupathi-517501.

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.