MICR Code: 175002031

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0003250
MICR Code: 175002031
Address: Dist Kulu, Himachal Pradesh 175129
City: Kullu
District: Kulu
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 175002031.

  • In this case first three codes 175 is city code and it represents city Kullu.
  • Next three characters 002 represents bank State Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 031 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Dist Kulu, Himachal Pradesh 175129.

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.