MICR Code: 797002518

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0006565
MICR Code: 797002518
Address: Dist Phek, Nagaland 797114
City: Phek
District: Melluri
State: Nagaland

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 797002518.

  • In this case first three codes 797 is city code and it represents city Phek.
  • Next three characters 002 represents bank State Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 518 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Dist Phek, Nagaland 797114.

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.