MICR Code: 608002009

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0008281
MICR Code: 608002009
Address: 156 By A By 2 Main Road, Dhanur Village, Cuddalore, Tamil Nadu
City: Cuddalore
District: Kanur
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 608002009.

  • In this case first three codes 608 is city code and it represents city Cuddalore.
  • Next three characters 002 represents bank State Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 009 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address 156 By A By 2 Main Road, Dhanur Village, Cuddalore, Tamil Nadu.

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.