MICR Code: 272002047

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0002587
MICR Code: 272002047
Address: Distt Siddharth Nagar Uttar Pradesh 272207
City: Siddharth Nagar
District: Naugarh
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 272002047.

  • In this case first three codes 272 is city code and it represents city Siddharth Nagar.
  • Next three characters 002 represents bank State Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 047 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Distt Siddharth Nagar Uttar Pradesh 272207.

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.