MICR Code: 462002018

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0005798
MICR Code: 462002018
Address: Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh , Pin - 462016
City: Bhopal
District: Bhopal
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 462002018.

  • In this case first three codes 462 is city code and it represents city Bhopal.
  • Next three characters 002 represents bank State Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 018 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh , Pin - 462016.

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.