MICR Code: 231002012

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0006339
MICR Code: 231002012
Address: Dist Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh 231001
City: Sunbhadra
District: Anapara
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 231002012.

  • In this case first three codes 231 is city code and it represents city Sunbhadra.
  • Next three characters 002 represents bank State Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 012 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Dist Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh 231001.

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.