MICR Code: 444002971

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0000311
MICR Code: 444002971
Address: Nr. Shyam Talkies, Amravati
City: Amravati
District: Amravati
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 444002971.

  • In this case first three codes 444 is city code and it represents city Amravati.
  • Next three characters 002 represents bank State Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 971 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Nr. Shyam Talkies, Amravati.

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.