MICR Code: 500011029

Bank: Andhra Bank
IFSC Code: Andb0000858
MICR Code: 500011029
Address: 158 Housing Complex, Nampally Roadhyderabad
City: Hyderabad Urban
District: Vishakhapatnam
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 500011029.

  • In this case first three codes 500 is city code and it represents city Hyderabad Urban.
  • Next three characters 011 represents bank Andhra Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 029 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address 158 Housing Complex, Nampally Roadhyderabad.

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.