MICR Code: 176002151

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0002388
MICR Code: 176002151
Address: Kangra State Himachal Pradesh Pin176086
City: Kangra
District: Kangra
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 176002151.

  • In this case first three codes 176 is city code and it represents city Kangra.
  • Next three characters 002 represents bank State Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 151 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Kangra State Himachal Pradesh Pin176086.

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.