MICR Code: 600002137

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0005593
MICR Code: 600002137
Address: 82-A Main Road, Distt. Kanchipuram, Tamil Nadu 631601
City: Kancheepuram
District: Ayyampettai
State: Tamil Nadu

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 600002137.

  • In this case first three codes 600 is city code and it represents city Kancheepuram.
  • Next three characters 002 represents bank State Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 137 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address 82-A Main Road, Distt. Kanchipuram, Tamil Nadu 631601.

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.