MICR Code: 472002005

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0003178
MICR Code: 472002005
Address: Jatara Tehsil
City: Tikamgarh
District: Digoda
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 472002005.

  • In this case first three codes 472 is city code and it represents city Tikamgarh.
  • Next three characters 002 represents bank State Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 005 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Jatara Tehsil.

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.