MICR Code: 609002004

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0002281
MICR Code: 609002004
Address: North Street, Distt. Nagapattinam, Tamil Nadu 609114
City: Nagapattinam
District: Tiruvengadu
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 609002004.

  • In this case first three codes 609 is city code and it represents city Nagapattinam.
  • Next three characters 002 represents bank State Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 004 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address North Street, Distt. Nagapattinam, Tamil Nadu 609114.

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.