MICR Code: 242002010

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0004003
MICR Code: 242002010
Address: Tehsil Road, Jalalabad, Distt Shahjahanpur, U P 242221
City: Agra
District: Shahjahanpur
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 242002010.

  • In this case first three codes 242 is city code and it represents city Agra.
  • Next three characters 002 represents bank State Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 010 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Tehsil Road, Jalalabad, Distt Shahjahanpur, U P 242221.

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.