MICR Code: 249002165

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0006904
MICR Code: 249002165
Address: Distt Uttarkashiuttaranchal
City: Uttarkashi
District: Uttarkashi
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 249002165.

  • In this case first three codes 249 is city code and it represents city Uttarkashi.
  • Next three characters 002 represents bank State Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 165 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Distt Uttarkashiuttaranchal.

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.