MICR Code: 273002020

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0008347
MICR Code: 273002020
Address: Post Misraulia Bazar T Gorakhpur U P
City: Gorakpur
District: Gorakhpur
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 273002020.

  • In this case first three codes 273 is city code and it represents city Gorakpur.
  • Next three characters 002 represents bank State Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 020 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Post Misraulia Bazar T Gorakhpur 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.