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  7. MICR: 581002009

MICR Code: 581002009

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0000857
MICR Code: 581002009
Address: Green Street Karwar Uttar Kannada Karnataka 581301
City: Uttara Kannada
District: Karwar
State: Karnataka

What is MICR Code?

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.

Details of MICR Code

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 581002009.

  • In this case first three codes 581 is city code and it represents city Uttara Kannada.
  • Next three characters 002 represents bank State Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 009 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Green Street Karwar Uttar Kannada Karnataka 581301.

How to find micr code (for example 581002009) from bank account number?

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.