MICR Code: 226002073

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0012977
MICR Code: 226002073
Address: House No 48, Nh 52 Mangaldoi 784125
City: Barpeta
District: Mangaldoi
State: Assam

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 226002073.

  • In this case first three codes 226 is city code and it represents city Barpeta.
  • Next three characters 002 represents bank State Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 073 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address House No 48, Nh 52 Mangaldoi 784125.

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.