MICR Code: 274002022

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0012867
MICR Code: 274002022
Address: Rasoolabad, Jhinjak Road Rasoolabad, Distt Kanpur Dehat 209306
City: Kanpur Dehat
District: Rasoolabad
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 274002022.

  • In this case first three codes 274 is city code and it represents city Kanpur Dehat.
  • Next three characters 002 represents bank State Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 022 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Rasoolabad, Jhinjak Road Rasoolabad, Distt Kanpur Dehat 209306.

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.