MICR Code: 515002206

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0000845
MICR Code: 515002206
Address: Hindpur-515201
City: Anantpur
District: Hindpur
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 515002206.

  • In this case first three codes 515 is city code and it represents city Anantpur.
  • Next three characters 002 represents bank State Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 206 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Hindpur-515201.

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.