MICR Code: 521002056

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0000889
MICR Code: 521002056
Address: Dist Krishna, Andhra Pradesh 521 201
City: Krishna
District: Nuzvid
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 521002056.

  • In this case first three codes 521 is city code and it represents city Krishna.
  • Next three characters 002 represents bank State Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 056 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Dist Krishna, Andhra Pradesh 521 201.

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.