MICR Code: 605002012

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0010507
MICR Code: 605002012
Address: 64 Lawspet Main Road Puducherry
City: Tiruvannamalai
District: Pondicherry
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 605002012.

  • In this case first three codes 605 is city code and it represents city Tiruvannamalai.
  • Next three characters 002 represents bank State Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 012 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address 64 Lawspet Main Road Puducherry.

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.