MICR Code: 500029001

Bank: Vijaya Bank
IFSC Code: Vijb0009206
MICR Code: 500029001
Address: Service Branch Hyderabad,P B No 1039, No 3-6-481, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh
City: Hyderabad
District: Hyderabad
State: Andhra 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 500029001.

  • In this case first three codes 500 is city code and it represents city Hyderabad.
  • Next three characters 029 represents bank Vijaya Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 001 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Service Branch Hyderabad,P B No 1039, No 3-6-481, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh.

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.