MICR Code: 488002021

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0002845
MICR Code: 488002021
Address: Dist Panna, Madhya Pradesh 488333
City: Panna
District: Devendra Nagar
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 488002021.

  • In this case first three codes 488 is city code and it represents city Panna.
  • Next three characters 002 represents bank State Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 021 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Dist Panna, Madhya Pradesh 488333.

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.