MICR Code: 208485002

Bank: Kotak Mahindra Bank Limited
IFSC Code: Kkbk0000131
MICR Code: 208485002
Address: 17/3 B, The Mall, Meghdoot Hotel Building, Kanpur, Up - 208 001
City: Kanpur City
District: Kanpur
State: Uttar 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 208485002.

  • In this case first three codes 208 is city code and it represents city Kanpur City.
  • Next three characters 485 represents bank Kotak Mahindra Bank Limited.
  • Remaining characters which are 002 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address 17/3 B, The Mall, Meghdoot Hotel Building, Kanpur, Up - 208 001.

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.