MICR Code: 517011782

Bank: Andhra Bank
IFSC Code: Andb0000916
MICR Code: 517011782
Address: Polavarampoothalapattu Mandal, Chitoor D
City: West Godavari
District: Polavaram
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 517011782.

  • In this case first three codes 517 is city code and it represents city West Godavari.
  • Next three characters 011 represents bank Andhra Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 782 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Polavarampoothalapattu Mandal, Chitoor D.

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.