MICR Code: 173002041

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0002413
MICR Code: 173002041
Address: Sirmaur, Himachal Pradesh 173021
City: Sirmour
District: Majra
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 173002041.

  • In this case first three codes 173 is city code and it represents city Sirmour.
  • Next three characters 002 represents bank State Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 041 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Sirmaur, Himachal Pradesh 173021.

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.