MICR Code: 517002045

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0005691
MICR Code: 517002045
Address: Chittoor A P 517427
City: Chittor
District: Bangarupalem
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 517002045.

  • In this case first three codes 517 is city code and it represents city Chittor.
  • Next three characters 002 represents bank State Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 045 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Chittoor A P 517427.

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.