MICR Code: 523002005

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0001173
MICR Code: 523002005
Address: Distprakasam Andhra Pradesh 523333
City: Prakasam
District: Cumbum
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 523002005.

  • In this case first three codes 523 is city code and it represents city Prakasam.
  • Next three characters 002 represents bank State Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 005 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Distprakasam Andhra Pradesh 523333.

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.