MICR Code: 636059502

Bank: The South Indian Bank Ltd
IFSC Code: Sibl0000601
MICR Code: 636059502
Address: Sy. No 239/11. Opp To Salem District Central Cooperative Bank, Dharmapuri Road Omallur, Salem Dist. Tamilnadu 636012
City: Salem
District: Omalur
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 636059502.

  • In this case first three codes 636 is city code and it represents city Salem.
  • Next three characters 059 represents bank The South Indian Bank Ltd.
  • Remaining characters which are 502 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Sy. No 239/11. Opp To Salem District Central Cooperative Bank, Dharmapuri Road Omallur, Salem Dist. Tamilnadu 636012.

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.