MICR Code: 591002071

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0003165
MICR Code: 591002071
Address: Athni Tq., Belgaum Distt., Karnataka 591320
City: Belgaum
District: Ugar Buzruk
State: Karnataka

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 591002071.

  • In this case first three codes 591 is city code and it represents city Belgaum.
  • Next three characters 002 represents bank State Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 071 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Athni Tq., Belgaum Distt., Karnataka 591320.

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.