MICR Code: 173002221

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0011851
MICR Code: 173002221
Address: Arki, Vill And Poarki, Distt Solan, Himachal Pradesh, Distsolan173208
City: Solan
District: Arki
State: Himachal 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 173002221.

  • In this case first three codes 173 is city code and it represents city Solan.
  • Next three characters 002 represents bank State Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 221 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Arki, Vill And Poarki, Distt Solan, Himachal Pradesh, Distsolan173208.

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.