MICR Code: 495002317

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0012139
MICR Code: 495002317
Address: Dist Korbastate Chattisgarh
City: Korba
District: Korba
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 495002317.

  • In this case first three codes 495 is city code and it represents city Korba.
  • Next three characters 002 represents bank State Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 317 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Dist Korbastate Chattisgarh.

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.