MICR Code: 610002001

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0000939
MICR Code: 610002001
Address: 18, Panagal Rd., Tiruvarur-610001
City: Tiruvarur
District: Tiruvarur
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 610002001.

  • In this case first three codes 610 is city code and it represents city Tiruvarur.
  • Next three characters 002 represents bank State Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 001 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address 18, Panagal Rd., Tiruvarur-610001.

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.