MICR Code: 600002081

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0003303
MICR Code: 600002081
Address: 5A, Sidco Industrial Estate, North Phase, Ambattur Tiruvallur, Tamilnadu 600098
City: Chennai
District: Tiruvallur
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 600002081.

  • In this case first three codes 600 is city code and it represents city Chennai.
  • Next three characters 002 represents bank State Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 081 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address 5A, Sidco Industrial Estate, North Phase, Ambattur Tiruvallur, Tamilnadu 600098.

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.