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MICR Code: 222002016

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0010176
MICR Code: 222002016
Address: Wazidpur Police Line Road, Jaunpur
City: Jaunpur
District: Jaunpur
State: Uttar Pradesh

What is MICR Code?

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.

Details of MICR Code

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 222002016.

  • In this case first three codes 222 is city code and it represents city Jaunpur.
  • Next three characters 002 represents bank State Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 016 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Wazidpur Police Line Road, Jaunpur.

How to find micr code (for example 222002016) from bank account number?

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.