MICR Code: 171026002

Bank: Union Bank of India
IFSC Code: Ubin0530956
MICR Code: 171026002
Address: Bell Villa, The Mall, Simla, Dist. Shimla, Himachal Pradesh, Pin - 171 001.
City: Shimla
District: Simla
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 171026002.

  • In this case first three codes 171 is city code and it represents city Shimla.
  • Next three characters 026 represents bank Union Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 002 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Bell Villa, The Mall, Simla, Dist. Shimla, Himachal Pradesh, Pin - 171 001..

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.