MICR Code: 491002401

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0000524
MICR Code: 491002401
Address: Dist Rajnandgaon, Chhattisgarh 491881
City: Rajnandgaon
District: Khairagarh
State: Chandigarh

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 491002401.

  • In this case first three codes 491 is city code and it represents city Rajnandgaon.
  • Next three characters 002 represents bank State Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 401 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Dist Rajnandgaon, Chhattisgarh 491881.

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.