MICR Code: 500011179

Bank: Andhra Bank
IFSC Code: Andb0002192
MICR Code: 500011179
Address: Plot No 8, Road No 5, Thrimurthy Colony, Mahendra Hills, East Maredpally, Secunderabad
City: Hyderabad
District: Hyderabad
State: Andhra 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 500011179.

  • In this case first three codes 500 is city code and it represents city Hyderabad.
  • Next three characters 011 represents bank Andhra Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 179 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Plot No 8, Road No 5, Thrimurthy Colony, Mahendra Hills, East Maredpally, Secunderabad.

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.