MICR Code: 421002809

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0009278
MICR Code: 421002809
Address: Dist Thanestate Maharashtrapin 400701
City: Thane
District: Thane
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 421002809.

  • In this case first three codes 421 is city code and it represents city Thane.
  • Next three characters 002 represents bank State Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 809 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Dist Thanestate Maharashtrapin 400701.

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.