MICR Code: 244002101

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0008939
MICR Code: 244002101
Address: Tehsil Kashipur, Dist Udham Singh Nagar, Uttaranchal 244712
City: Balia
District: Patrampur
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 244002101.

  • In this case first three codes 244 is city code and it represents city Balia.
  • Next three characters 002 represents bank State Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 101 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Tehsil Kashipur, Dist Udham Singh Nagar, Uttaranchal 244712.

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.