MICR Code: 400002183

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0011673
MICR Code: 400002183
Address: Chaturbhuj Coop Hsg Soc Ltd, Plot No 61962, Sector21 Kharghar, Navi Mumbai
City: Thane
District: Newbombay
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 400002183.

  • 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 183 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Chaturbhuj Coop Hsg Soc Ltd, Plot No 61962, Sector21 Kharghar, Navi Mumbai.

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.