MICR Code: 176002141

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0001906
MICR Code: 176002141
Address: Dist Kangra, Himachal Pradesh 176064
City: Kangra
District: Paror Khas
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 176002141.

  • In this case first three codes 176 is city code and it represents city Kangra.
  • Next three characters 002 represents bank State Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 141 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Dist Kangra, Himachal Pradesh 176064.

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.