MICR Code: 262002554

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0003556
MICR Code: 262002554
Address: Munsiaripithoragarh
City: Pitoragarh
District: Pithorgarh
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 262002554.

  • In this case first three codes 262 is city code and it represents city Pitoragarh.
  • Next three characters 002 represents bank State Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 554 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Munsiaripithoragarh.

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.