MICR Code: 440002020

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0009057
MICR Code: 440002020
Address: Nagpur, Maharashtra, Pin 440022
City: Nagpur
District: Nagpur
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 440002020.

  • In this case first three codes 440 is city code and it represents city Nagpur.
  • Next three characters 002 represents bank State Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 020 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Nagpur, Maharashtra, Pin 440022.

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.