MICR Code: 516002046

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0007514
MICR Code: 516002046
Address: Dist Kadapa, A P 516310
City: Cuddapah
District: Chilamkur
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 516002046.

  • In this case first three codes 516 is city code and it represents city Cuddapah.
  • Next three characters 002 represents bank State Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 046 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Dist Kadapa, A P 516310.

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.