MICR Code: 248002547

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0006539
MICR Code: 248002547
Address: Dist Pithorgarh, Uttaranchal
City: Pitoragarh
District: Pithoragarh
State: Uttarakhand

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 248002547.

  • In this case first three codes 248 is city code and it represents city Pitoragarh.
  • Next three characters 002 represents bank State Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 547 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Dist Pithorgarh, Uttaranchal.

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.