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  7. MICR: 208002995

MICR Code: 208002995

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0010522
MICR Code: 208002995
Address: Dist Kanpur Citystate Uttar Pradesh
City: Kanpur Nagar
District: Kanpur City
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 208002995.

  • In this case first three codes 208 is city code and it represents city Kanpur Nagar.
  • Next three characters 002 represents bank State Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 995 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Dist Kanpur Citystate Uttar Pradesh.

How to find micr code (for example 208002995) 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.