MICR Code: 461002008

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0003862
MICR Code: 461002008
Address: Dist Hoshangabad, Madhya Pradesh 461661
City: Hoshangabad
District: Babai
State: Madhya Pradesh

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 461002008.

  • In this case first three codes 461 is city code and it represents city Hoshangabad.
  • Next three characters 002 represents bank State Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 008 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Dist Hoshangabad, Madhya Pradesh 461661.

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.