MICR Code: 263002122

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0008967
MICR Code: 263002122
Address: Dist Almora, Uttaranchal 263681
City: Greater Bombay
District: Almora
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 263002122.

  • In this case first three codes 263 is city code and it represents city Greater Bombay.
  • Next three characters 002 represents bank State Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 122 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Dist Almora, Uttaranchal 263681.

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.