MICR Code: 494002152

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0003271
MICR Code: 494002152
Address: Distkanker Chattisgarh 494776
City: Kanker
District: Pakhanjore
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 494002152.

  • In this case first three codes 494 is city code and it represents city Kanker.
  • Next three characters 002 represents bank State Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 152 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Distkanker Chattisgarh 494776.

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.