MICR Code: 177002061

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0009085
MICR Code: 177002061
Address: Hamirpur, Himachal Pradesh 177038
City: Hamirpur
District: Sera
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 177002061.

  • 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 061 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Hamirpur, Himachal Pradesh 177038.

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.