MICR Code: 171002171

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0008453
MICR Code: 171002171
Address: Dist Simla, H P 171211
City: Shimla
District: Jikhnipul
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 171002171.

  • In this case first three codes 171 is city code and it represents city Shimla.
  • Next three characters 002 represents bank State Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 171 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Dist Simla, H P 171211.

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.