MICR Code: 497002381

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0006259
MICR Code: 497002381
Address: Near B Seam Colliery Distt Koriya Chattisgarh 497447
City: Koriya
District: Khongapani
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 497002381.

  • In this case first three codes 497 is city code and it represents city Koriya.
  • Next three characters 002 represents bank State Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 381 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Near B Seam Colliery Distt Koriya Chattisgarh 497447.

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.