MICR Code: 400002443

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0012962
MICR Code: 400002443
Address: Sadar, Meerut,142, Ganj Bazar, Meerut, Distmeerut 250001
City: Meerut
District: Merrut
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 400002443.

  • In this case first three codes 400 is city code and it represents city Meerut.
  • Next three characters 002 represents bank State Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 443 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Sadar, Meerut,142, Ganj Bazar, Meerut, Distmeerut 250001.

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.