MICR Code: 496002462

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0012136
MICR Code: 496002462
Address: Pharsabahar, Dist Jashpur Nagar Cg, Distjashpur Nagar 496242
City: Jashpur
District: Pharsabahar
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 496002462.

  • In this case first three codes 496 is city code and it represents city Jashpur.
  • Next three characters 002 represents bank State Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 462 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Pharsabahar, Dist Jashpur Nagar Cg, Distjashpur Nagar 496242.

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.