MICR Code: 174002402

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0001138
MICR Code: 174002402
Address: Distmandi Himachal Pradesh 174402
City: Mandi
District: Mandi
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 174002402.

  • In this case first three codes 174 is city code and it represents city Mandi.
  • Next three characters 002 represents bank State Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 402 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Distmandi Himachal Pradesh 174402.

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.