MICR Code: 487002004

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0002860
MICR Code: 487002004
Address: Dist Narsimhapur, Madhya Pradesh487 221
City: Narsinghpur
District: Kareli
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 487002004.

  • In this case first three codes 487 is city code and it represents city Narsinghpur.
  • Next three characters 002 represents bank State Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 004 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Dist Narsimhapur, Madhya Pradesh487 221.

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.