MICR Code: 185002501

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0011893
MICR Code: 185002501
Address: Main Bazar, Surankot, Distt. Poonch, Pin 185121
City: Poonch
District: Surankot
State: Jammu And Kashmir

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 185002501.

  • In this case first three codes 185 is city code and it represents city Poonch.
  • Next three characters 002 represents bank State Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 501 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Main Bazar, Surankot, Distt. Poonch, Pin 185121.

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.