MICR Code: 638002057

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0004271
MICR Code: 638002057
Address: 12 Puliampatti Road, Nambiyur Sarvodaya Building, Distt. Erode, Tamil Nadu 638458
City: Erode
District: Nambiyur
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 638002057.

  • In this case first three codes 638 is city code and it represents city Erode.
  • Next three characters 002 represents bank State Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 057 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address 12 Puliampatti Road, Nambiyur Sarvodaya Building, Distt. Erode, Tamil Nadu 638458.

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.