MICR Code: 700036016

Bank: Standard Chartered Bank
IFSC Code: Scbl0036014
MICR Code: 700036016
Address: 21-A Shakespeare Sarani
City: Kolkata
District: Kolkata
State: West Bengal

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 700036016.

  • In this case first three codes 700 is city code and it represents city Kolkata.
  • Next three characters 036 represents bank Standard Chartered Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 016 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address 21-A Shakespeare Sarani.

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.