Year-wise Cheque Clearances by Centres

The data shows year-wise and centre-wise distribution of cheque clearances in terms of number and amount, over the period 2003-04 and 2015-16.

Note:
1. In data for Jammu settlement of MICR Clearing is being done in the book of Reserve Bank of India effective November, 2009.
2. Cheque Truncation System (CTS) implemented in New Delhi and Chennai-grid. The Chennai - grid includes some of the clearing houses in the state of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Punjab (Ludhiana), Tamil Nadu, West Bengal (Kolkata), and Union Territories of Puducherry and Chandigarh).
3. The data includes cheque clearing for both i. e. clearing houses managed by Reserve Bank Of India and clearing houses managed by other banks.
4. Paper based inter-bank clearing has been discontinued at all the centres since June, 2005. The other MICR Centres are Agra, Allahabad, Amritsar, Aurangabad, Anand, Baroda, Belgaum, Bhavnagar, Bhilwara, Calicut, Coimbatore, Cuttack, Dehradun, Erode, Gorakhpur, Gwalior, Hubli, Indore, Jabalpur, Jalandhar, Jamshedpur, Jamnagar, Jodhpur, Kochi, Kolhapur, Kota, Lucknow, Ludhiana, Madurai, Mangalore, Mysore, Nasik, Panaji, Pune, Pondicherry, Raipur, Rajkot, Ranchi, Salem, Surat, Sholapur, Thrissur, Tiruchirappalli, Tirunelveli, Tirupur, Udaipur, Varanasi, Vijayawada and Vishakhapatnam.
5. Totals may not tally due to rounding off of figures.