MICR Code: 246002302

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0003468
MICR Code: 246002302
Address: Hardwar Road, Allahapur, Ditt Bijnor, U P 246761
City: Allahabad
District: Bijnor
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 246002302.

  • In this case first three codes 246 is city code and it represents city Allahabad.
  • Next three characters 002 represents bank State Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 302 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Hardwar Road, Allahapur, Ditt Bijnor, U P 246761.

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.