MICR Code: 400002116

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0004880
MICR Code: 400002116
Address: Sankalp Agashi Road, Virar West
City: Thane
District: Virar
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 400002116.

  • 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 116 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Sankalp Agashi Road, Virar West.

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.