MICR Code: 600053001

Bank: Karur Vysya Bank Limited
IFSC Code: Kvbl0001221
MICR Code: 600053001
Address: Karur Vysya Bank, Central Clearing Office, 766 Anna Salaisakthi Towers 6 Th Floor, Chennai-600002
City: Chennai
District: Chennai
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 600053001.

  • In this case first three codes 600 is city code and it represents city Chennai.
  • Next three characters 053 represents bank Karur Vysya Bank Limited.
  • Remaining characters which are 001 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Karur Vysya Bank, Central Clearing Office, 766 Anna Salaisakthi Towers 6 Th Floor, Chennai-600002.

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.