MICR Code: 688002004

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0003054
MICR Code: 688002004
Address: P.B. No.4001, Officecumshopping Centre, New Zilla Court, Alappuzha
City: Alapuzzha
District: Alleppy
State: Kerala

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 688002004.

  • In this case first three codes 688 is city code and it represents city Alapuzzha.
  • Next three characters 002 represents bank State Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 004 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address P.B. No.4001, Officecumshopping Centre, New Zilla Court, Alappuzha.

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.