MICR Code: 444002769

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0004764
MICR Code: 444002769
Address: Dist Akola, Maharashtra 444401
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 444002769.

  • 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 769 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Dist Akola, Maharashtra 444401.

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.