MICR Code: 585002309

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0005979
MICR Code: 585002309
Address: Shahpur Taluk
City: Gulberga
District: Gogi
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 585002309.

  • In this case first three codes 585 is city code and it represents city Gulberga.
  • Next three characters 002 represents bank State Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 309 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Shahpur Taluk.

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.