MICR Code: 600036009

Bank: Standard Chartered Bank
IFSC Code: Scbl0036088
MICR Code: 600036009
Address: Newry, Plot No.106, Old Door No.11,
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 600036009.

  • In this case first three codes 600 is city code and it represents city Chennai.
  • Next three characters 036 represents bank Standard Chartered Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 009 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Newry, Plot No.106, Old Door No.11,.

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.