MICR Code: 444002361

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0014017
MICR Code: 444002361
Address: Regional Business Office, Madhumalti Bldg, Gupte Marg, Jatharpeth, Akola 444005
City: Akola
District: Akola
State: Maharashtra

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 444002361.

  • In this case first three codes 444 is city code and it represents city Akola.
  • Next three characters 002 represents bank State Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 361 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Regional Business Office, Madhumalti Bldg, Gupte Marg, Jatharpeth, Akola 444005.

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.