MICR Code: 176850178

Bank: The Kangra Central Cooperative Bank Ltd
IFSC Code: Kace0000027
MICR Code: 176850178
Address: Tehsil Jawali Distt. Kangra H.P. 176027
City: Kangra
District: Nagrota Surian
State: Himachal 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 176850178.

  • In this case first three codes 176 is city code and it represents city Kangra.
  • Next three characters 850 represents bank The Kangra Central Cooperative Bank Ltd.
  • Remaining characters which are 178 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Tehsil Jawali Distt. Kangra H.P. 176027.

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.