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MICR Code: 700002176

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0008600
MICR Code: 700002176
Address: 40, Ezra Street, Kolkata, West Bengal, Pin - 700001
City: Greater Bombay
District: Kolkata
State: Maharashtra

What is MICR Code?

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.

Details of MICR Code

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 700002176.

  • In this case first three codes 700 is city code and it represents city Greater Bombay.
  • Next three characters 002 represents bank State Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 176 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address 40, Ezra Street, Kolkata, West Bengal, Pin - 700001.

How to find micr code (for example 700002176) from bank account number?

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.