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  7. MICR: 600002049

MICR Code: 600002049

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0007106
MICR Code: 600002049
Address: 11, Mahatma Gandhi Road Chennai Citypin - 600020
City: Chennai
District: Chennai
State: Tamil Nadu

What is MICR Code?

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.

Details of MICR Code

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 600002049.

  • In this case first three codes 600 is city code and it represents city Chennai.
  • Next three characters 002 represents bank State Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 049 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address 11, Mahatma Gandhi Road Chennai Citypin - 600020.

How to find micr code (for example 600002049) from bank account number?

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.