MICR Code: 600164002
| Bank: The Cosmos Cooperative Bank Ltd |
| IFSC Code: Cosb0000068 |
| MICR Code: 600164002 |
| Address: Old No 17/4 & New No 37/4, Shreeji Palace, Evk Sampat Road, Vepery, Chennai-600007 |
| 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 600164002.
- In this case first three codes 600 is city code and it represents city Chennai.
- Next three characters 164 represents bank The Cosmos Cooperative Bank Ltd.
- Remaining characters which are 002 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Old No 17/4 & New No 37/4, Shreeji Palace, Evk Sampat Road, Vepery, Chennai-600007.
The easiest way to find MICR code is to check your
- Bank account statement
- Cheques
Please examine below sample cheque for more details
I hope this clears doubts.