MICR Code: 600056008

Bank: The Lakshmi Vilas Bank Ltd
IFSC Code: Lavb0000431
MICR Code: 600056008
Address: 175 Valluvar Kottam High Road P B No 1258 1 St Floor Nungambakkamchenna
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 600056008.

  • In this case first three codes 600 is city code and it represents city Chennai.
  • Next three characters 056 represents bank The Lakshmi Vilas Bank Ltd.
  • Remaining characters which are 008 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address 175 Valluvar Kottam High Road P B No 1258 1 St Floor Nungambakkamchenna.

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.