MICR Code: 560002146

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0012660
MICR Code: 560002146
Address: Basavanpur Main Road, Battarahalli,K R Puram, Bangalore 560049
City: Bangalore Urban
District: Battarahalli
State: Karnataka

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 560002146.

  • In this case first three codes 560 is city code and it represents city Bangalore Urban.
  • Next three characters 002 represents bank State Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 146 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Basavanpur Main Road, Battarahalli,K R Puram, Bangalore 560049.

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.