MICR Code: 688002017

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0012871
MICR Code: 688002017
Address: D No 22 1 49, Muniswami Naidu Street, Gandhi Chowk, Tenali, Distguntur 522210
City: Guntur
District: Tenali
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 688002017.

  • In this case first three codes 688 is city code and it represents city Guntur.
  • Next three characters 002 represents bank State Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 017 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address D No 22 1 49, Muniswami Naidu Street, Gandhi Chowk, Tenali, Distguntur 522210.

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.