MICR Code: 202002151

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0013940
MICR Code: 202002151
Address: Samad Road, Main Branch, Aligarh,202001
City: Aligarh
District: Aligarh
State: Uttar Pradesh

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 202002151.

  • In this case first three codes 202 is city code and it represents city Aligarh.
  • Next three characters 002 represents bank State Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 151 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Samad Road, Main Branch, Aligarh,202001.

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.