MICR Code: 474005003

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0030119
MICR Code: 474005003
Address: Patankar Bazar, Lashkar
City: Gwalior
District: Lashkar
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 474005003.

  • In this case first three codes 474 is city code and it represents city Gwalior.
  • Next three characters 005 represents bank State Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 003 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Patankar Bazar, Lashkar.

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.