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  7. MICR: 600029005

MICR Code: 600029005

Bank: Vijaya Bank
IFSC Code: Vijb0003008
MICR Code: 600029005
Address: Mount Road Chennai,P B No 360,168 Mount Road, Chennai, Tamil Nadu
City: Chennai
District: Chennai
State: Tamil Nadu

What is MICR Code?

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.

Details of MICR Code

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 600029005.

  • In this case first three codes 600 is city code and it represents city Chennai.
  • Next three characters 029 represents bank Vijaya Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 005 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Mount Road Chennai,P B No 360,168 Mount Road, Chennai, Tamil Nadu.

How to find micr code (for example 600029005) from bank account number?

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.