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MICR Code: 172002211

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0008877
MICR Code: 172002211
Address: Distlahul And Spiti Himachal Pradesh 172114
City: Bargah
District: Hansa
State: Odisha

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 172002211.

  • In this case first three codes 172 is city code and it represents city Bargah.
  • Next three characters 002 represents bank State Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 211 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Distlahul And Spiti Himachal Pradesh 172114.

How to find micr code (for example 172002211) 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.