MICR Code: 400004006

Bank: State Bank of Hyderabad
IFSC Code: Sbhy0020281
MICR Code: 400004006
Address: Parul Apartments, Opp Juhu Church, Near Hoter Horizon, Juhu, Mumbai 400 049
City: Greater Bombay
District: Greater Bombay
State: Maharashtra

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 400004006.

  • In this case first three codes 400 is city code and it represents city Greater Bombay.
  • Next three characters 004 represents bank State Bank of Hyderabad.
  • Remaining characters which are 006 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Parul Apartments, Opp Juhu Church, Near Hoter Horizon, Juhu, Mumbai 400 049.

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.