MICR Code: 608053002

Bank: Karur Vysya Bank Limited
IFSC Code: Kvbl0001116
MICR Code: 608053002
Address: 36/1, West Car Street, Chidambaram-608001
City: Cuddalore
District: Chidambaram
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 608053002.

  • In this case first three codes 608 is city code and it represents city Cuddalore.
  • Next three characters 053 represents bank Karur Vysya Bank Limited.
  • Remaining characters which are 002 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address 36/1, West Car Street, Chidambaram-608001.

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.