MICR Code: 400053000

Bank: Karur Vysya Bank Limited
IFSC Code: Kvbl0001236
MICR Code: 400053000
Address: 954 Appa Saheb Marathe Marg, Prabhadevi, Mumbai-400025
City: Greater 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 400053000.

  • In this case first three codes 400 is city code and it represents city Greater Mumbai.
  • Next three characters 053 represents bank Karur Vysya Bank Limited.
  • Remaining characters which are 000 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address 954 Appa Saheb Marathe Marg, Prabhadevi, Mumbai-400025.

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.