MICR Code: 722002504

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0003906
MICR Code: 722002504
Address: Dist Bankura, West Bengal 722144
City: Bankura
District: Bankura
State: West Bengal

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 722002504.

  • In this case first three codes 722 is city code and it represents city Bankura.
  • Next three characters 002 represents bank State Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 504 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Dist Bankura, West Bengal 722144.

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.