MICR Code: 533002156

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0002691
MICR Code: 533002156
Address: Dist Visakhapatnam, A P 531149
City: Vishakapatnam
District: Aruku Valley
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 533002156.

  • In this case first three codes 533 is city code and it represents city Vishakapatnam.
  • Next three characters 002 represents bank State Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 156 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Dist Visakhapatnam, A P 531149.

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.