MICR Code: 400002137

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0006613
MICR Code: 400002137
Address: Lekhraj Bhavan, 1 St Floor Saki Vihar Road, Sakinaka, Mumbai Pin - 400072
City: Greater Bombay
District: Mumbai
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 400002137.

  • In this case first three codes 400 is city code and it represents city Greater Bombay.
  • Next three characters 002 represents bank State Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 137 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Lekhraj Bhavan, 1 St Floor Saki Vihar Road, Sakinaka, Mumbai Pin - 400072.

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.