MICR Code: 277002019

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0011244
MICR Code: 277002019
Address: Ballia 221711
City: Balia
District: Ballia
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 277002019.

  • In this case first three codes 277 is city code and it represents city Balia.
  • Next three characters 002 represents bank State Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 019 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Ballia 221711.

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.