MICR Code: 400002143

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0007452
MICR Code: 400002143
Address: Shed No W By 68 Midc Area, Po Kulgaon, Ulhasnagar, Thane
City: Thane
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 400002143.

  • In this case first three codes 400 is city code and it represents city Thane.
  • Next three characters 002 represents bank State Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 143 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Shed No W By 68 Midc Area, Po Kulgaon, Ulhasnagar, Thane.

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.