MICR Code: 517011562

Bank: Andhra Bank
IFSC Code: Andb0001901
MICR Code: 517011562
Address: Dno: 15/180A, Sri Sai Srinivasa Padmavathi Cok N Road, Puttur, Chittor Dist.
City: Chittoor
District: Puttur
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 517011562.

  • In this case first three codes 517 is city code and it represents city Chittoor.
  • Next three characters 011 represents bank Andhra Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 562 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Dno: 15/180A, Sri Sai Srinivasa Padmavathi Cok N Road, Puttur, Chittor Dist..

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.