MICR Code: 400060001

Bank: Tamilnad Mercantile Bank Limited
IFSC Code: Tmbl0000956
MICR Code: 400060001
Address: No.20, Gollawar Agraharam Road, First Floor, Old Washermanpet, Chennai600001
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 400060001.

  • In this case first three codes 400 is city code and it represents city Chennai.
  • Next three characters 060 represents bank Tamilnad Mercantile Bank Limited.
  • Remaining characters which are 001 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address No.20, Gollawar Agraharam Road, First Floor, Old Washermanpet, Chennai600001.

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.