MICR Code: 229002004

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0008055
MICR Code: 229002004
Address: Lalganj Road, Gurbuxganj, Dt Rae Bareli, U P Pin 229122
City: Raebareili
District: Sataon
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 229002004.

  • In this case first three codes 229 is city code and it represents city Raebareili.
  • Next three characters 002 represents bank State Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 004 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Lalganj Road, Gurbuxganj, Dt Rae Bareli, U P Pin 229122.

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.