MICR Code: 636002160

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0005594
MICR Code: 636002160
Address: 65 Nabinayakam St, Distt. Salem, Tamil Nadu 636104
City: Salem
District: Belur
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 636002160.

  • In this case first three codes 636 is city code and it represents city Salem.
  • Next three characters 002 represents bank State Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 160 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address 65 Nabinayakam St, Distt. Salem, Tamil Nadu 636104.

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.