MICR Code: 737002511

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0008511
MICR Code: 737002511
Address: Lower Pelling, Dt West Sikkim, Sikkim 737113
City: West Sikkim
District: Pelling
State: Sikkim

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 737002511.

  • In this case first three codes 737 is city code and it represents city West Sikkim.
  • Next three characters 002 represents bank State Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 511 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Lower Pelling, Dt West Sikkim, Sikkim 737113.

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.