MICR Code: 500004012

Bank: State Bank of Hyderabad
IFSC Code: Sbhy0020073
MICR Code: 500004012
Address: Pathergatti, Hyderabad
City: Hyderabad Urban
District: Hyderabad Urban
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 500004012.

  • In this case first three codes 500 is city code and it represents city Hyderabad Urban.
  • Next three characters 004 represents bank State Bank of Hyderabad.
  • Remaining characters which are 012 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Pathergatti, Hyderabad.

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.