MICR Code: 211002033

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0009555
MICR Code: 211002033
Address: Dist Allahabad, U P
City: Kanpur Dehat
District: Allahabad
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 211002033.

  • In this case first three codes 211 is city code and it represents city Kanpur Dehat.
  • Next three characters 002 represents bank State Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 033 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Dist Allahabad, U P.

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.