MICR Code: 700004005

Bank: State Bank of Hyderabad
IFSC Code: Sbhy0020811
MICR Code: 700004005
Address: No.72, Panchanantala Road, Panchanantala Howrah, Howrah,711101
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 700004005.

  • In this case first three codes 700 is city code and it represents city Kolkata.
  • Next three characters 004 represents bank State Bank of Hyderabad.
  • Remaining characters which are 005 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address No.72, Panchanantala Road, Panchanantala Howrah, Howrah,711101.

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.