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  7. MICR: 600002779

MICR Code: 600002779

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0006205
MICR Code: 600002779
Address: Chennai State Tamilnadu Pin 600001
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 600002779.

  • 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 779 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Chennai State Tamilnadu Pin 600001.

How to find micr code (for example 600002779) 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.