MICR Code: 721002834

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0008973
MICR Code: 721002834
Address: Po Khalsuri, Dt Paschim Medinipur, West Bengal 721513
City: Sitapur
District: Medinipur
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 721002834.

  • In this case first three codes 721 is city code and it represents city Sitapur.
  • Next three characters 002 represents bank State Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 834 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Po Khalsuri, Dt Paschim Medinipur, West Bengal 721513.

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.