MICR Code: 600053047

Bank: Karur Vysya Bank Limited
IFSC Code: Kvbl0001657
MICR Code: 600053047
Address: No 29, Lakshmi Nagar, I Floor, Guduvancherry, Chennai ┬Û 603 202.
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 600053047.

  • 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 047 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address No 29, Lakshmi Nagar, I Floor, Guduvancherry, Chennai ┬Û 603 202..

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.