MICR Code: 201002001

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0002425
MICR Code: 201002001
Address: Distghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh 201 206
City: Ghaziabad
District: Muradnagar
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 201002001.

  • In this case first three codes 201 is city code and it represents city Ghaziabad.
  • Next three characters 002 represents bank State Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 001 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Distghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh 201 206.

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.