MICR Code: 700011008

Bank: Andhra Bank
IFSC Code: Andb0000211
MICR Code: 700011008
Address: 21/1, Natabar Paul Rohowrah, Calcutta
City: Howrah
District: Howrah
State: West Bengal

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 700011008.

  • In this case first three codes 700 is city code and it represents city Howrah.
  • Next three characters 011 represents bank Andhra Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 008 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address 21/1, Natabar Paul Rohowrah, Calcutta.

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.