MICR Code: 272002061

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0008231
MICR Code: 272002061
Address: Distsant Kabirdas Nagar Uttar Pradesh
City: Sant Kabir Nagar
District: Khalilabad
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 272002061.

  • In this case first three codes 272 is city code and it represents city Sant Kabir Nagar.
  • Next three characters 002 represents bank State Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 061 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Distsant Kabirdas Nagar Uttar Pradesh.

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.