MICR Code: 626002053

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0000906
MICR Code: 626002053
Address: Tenkasi Rd., Rajapalayam, Pin-626117
City: Tirunelveli
District: Rajapalayam
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 626002053.

  • In this case first three codes 626 is city code and it represents city Tirunelveli.
  • Next three characters 002 represents bank State Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 053 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Tenkasi Rd., Rajapalayam, Pin-626117.

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.