MICR Code: 500002146

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0012939
MICR Code: 500002146
Address: Evershine Classic, Evershine City Road, Vasai East, Dist Thane, Distmumbai401201
City: Thane
District: Vasai East
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 500002146.

  • In this case first three codes 500 is city code and it represents city Thane.
  • Next three characters 002 represents bank State Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 146 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Evershine Classic, Evershine City Road, Vasai East, Dist Thane, Distmumbai401201.

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.