MICR Code: 679002040

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0008788
MICR Code: 679002040
Address: P.O. Muthuthala, Via Pattambi
City: Trivandrum
District: Muthuthala
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 679002040.

  • In this case first three codes 679 is city code and it represents city Trivandrum.
  • Next three characters 002 represents bank State Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 040 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address P.O. Muthuthala, Via Pattambi.

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.