MICR Code: 848011002

Bank: Andhra Bank
IFSC Code: Andb0001629
MICR Code: 848011002
Address: Mahanpur Road, Near Tdm Officesamastipur
City: Samastipur
District: Samastipur
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 848011002.

  • In this case first three codes 848 is city code and it represents city Samastipur.
  • Next three characters 011 represents bank Andhra Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 002 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Mahanpur Road, Near Tdm Officesamastipur.

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.