MICR Code: 605011002

Bank: Andhra Bank
IFSC Code: Andb0000199
MICR Code: 605011002
Address: 101, Eswaran Koil Street, Pondicherry - 605 001
City: Pondicherry
District: Pondicherry
State: Puducherry

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 605011002.

  • In this case first three codes 605 is city code and it represents city Pondicherry.
  • Next three characters 011 represents bank Andhra Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 002 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address 101, Eswaran Koil Street, Pondicherry - 605 001.

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.