MICR Code: 247002023

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0007153
MICR Code: 247002023
Address: Dist Saharanpur, Up 247120
City: Azamgarh
District: Saharanpur
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 247002023.

  • In this case first three codes 247 is city code and it represents city Azamgarh.
  • Next three characters 002 represents bank State Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 023 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Dist Saharanpur, Up 247120.

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.