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  7. MICR: 173002061

MICR Code: 173002061

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0002444
MICR Code: 173002061
Address: Dist Sirmaur, Himachal Pradesh 173024
City: Sirmour
District: Pachhad
State: Himachal Pradesh

What is MICR Code?

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.

Details of MICR Code

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 173002061.

  • 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 061 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Dist Sirmaur, Himachal Pradesh 173024.

How to find micr code (for example 173002061) from bank account number?

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.