MICR Code: 208004002

Bank: State Bank of Hyderabad
IFSC Code: Sbhy0020814
MICR Code: 208004002
Address: 25 By 18, Canal Road, Canal Road Kanpur, Kanpur
City: Kanpur Nagar
District: Kanpur Nagar
State: Uttar 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 208004002.

  • In this case first three codes 208 is city code and it represents city Kanpur Nagar.
  • Next three characters 004 represents bank State Bank of Hyderabad.
  • Remaining characters which are 002 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address 25 By 18, Canal Road, Canal Road Kanpur, Kanpur.

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.