MICR Code: 160002560

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0006754
MICR Code: 160002560
Address: Sco 181,182 Sector 8 Cchandigarh160018
City: Yamunanagar
District: Yamunanagar
State: Haryana

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 160002560.

  • In this case first three codes 160 is city code and it represents city Yamunanagar.
  • Next three characters 002 represents bank State Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 560 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Sco 181,182 Sector 8 Cchandigarh160018.

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.