MICR Code: 636002002

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0007201
MICR Code: 636002002
Address: Chinnayan Tower, 120/2 And 3, Cherry Road, Salem - 636007, Tamilnadu, India
City: Salem
District: Salem
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 636002002.

  • In this case first three codes 636 is city code and it represents city Salem.
  • Next three characters 002 represents bank State Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 002 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Chinnayan Tower, 120/2 And 3, Cherry Road, Salem - 636007, Tamilnadu, India.

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.