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  7. MICR: 176002310

MICR Code: 176002310

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0000626
MICR Code: 176002310
Address: Chamba, H.P.-176310
City: Chamba
District: Chamba
State: Himachal Pradesh

What is MICR Code?

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.

Details of MICR Code

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 176002310.

  • In this case first three codes 176 is city code and it represents city Chamba.
  • Next three characters 002 represents bank State Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 310 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Chamba, H.P.-176310.

How to find micr code (for example 176002310) from bank account number?

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.