MICR Code: 605002008

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0009586
MICR Code: 605002008
Address: Villupuram State Tamilnadu Pin605109
City: Villupuram
District: Villupuram
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 605002008.

  • In this case first three codes 605 is city code and it represents city Villupuram.
  • Next three characters 002 represents bank State Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 008 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Villupuram State Tamilnadu Pin605109.

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.