MICR Code: 520002019

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0001881
MICR Code: 520002019
Address: Vijaywada Taluk, Distkrishna, Distkrishna,521226
City: Krishna
District: Ibrahimpatnam
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 520002019.

  • In this case first three codes 520 is city code and it represents city Krishna.
  • Next three characters 002 represents bank State Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 019 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Vijaywada Taluk, Distkrishna, Distkrishna,521226.

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.