MICR Code: 517002944

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0006515
MICR Code: 517002944
Address: Dist Chittoor, Andhra Pradesh 517130
City: Chittor
District: Polakala
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 517002944.

  • In this case first three codes 517 is city code and it represents city Chittor.
  • Next three characters 002 represents bank State Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 944 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Dist Chittoor, Andhra Pradesh 517130.

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.