MICR Code: 208002029

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0003909
MICR Code: 208002029
Address: Unnao, Dt Unnao, State U P Pin 209 861
City: Unnav
District: Unnao
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 208002029.

  • In this case first three codes 208 is city code and it represents city Unnav.
  • Next three characters 002 represents bank State Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 029 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Unnao, Dt Unnao, State U P Pin 209 861.

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.