MICR Code: 177002081

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0007300
MICR Code: 177002081
Address: Dist Hamirpur, Himachal Pradesh 177040
City: Hamirpur
District: Nadaun
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 177002081.

  • In this case first three codes 177 is city code and it represents city Hamirpur.
  • Next three characters 002 represents bank State Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 081 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Dist Hamirpur, Himachal Pradesh 177040.

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.