MICR Code: 577006591

Bank: State Bank of Mysore
IFSC Code: Sbmy0041164
MICR Code: 577006591
Address: Ikkeri Road Opposite Veerabhadreshwara Temple Ist Floor Kamblikoppa Sagar Taluk
City: Shimoga
District: Sagar
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 577006591.

  • In this case first three codes 577 is city code and it represents city Shimoga.
  • Next three characters 006 represents bank State Bank of Mysore.
  • Remaining characters which are 591 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Ikkeri Road Opposite Veerabhadreshwara Temple Ist Floor Kamblikoppa Sagar Taluk.

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.