MICR Code: 854011102

Bank: Andhra Bank
IFSC Code: Andb0002017
MICR Code: 854011102
Address: Chitrawani Cinema Road, Bhatta Bazar, Purnea - 854301
City: Purnia
District: Purnea
State: Bihar

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 854011102.

  • In this case first three codes 854 is city code and it represents city Purnia.
  • Next three characters 011 represents bank Andhra Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 102 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Chitrawani Cinema Road, Bhatta Bazar, Purnea - 854301.

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.