MICR Code: 600002085

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0007993
MICR Code: 600002085
Address: 37A, Velachery Main Rd, Velachery, Chennai, Tamilnadu
City: Chennai
District: Velachery
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 600002085.

  • 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 085 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address 37A, Velachery Main Rd, Velachery, Chennai, Tamilnadu.

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.