MICR Code: 742002888

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0013988
MICR Code: 742002888
Address: 15 Square East Road, State Bank Building, Berhampore 742101
City: Murshidabad
District: Berhampore
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 742002888.

  • In this case first three codes 742 is city code and it represents city Murshidabad.
  • Next three characters 002 represents bank State Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 888 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address 15 Square East Road, State Bank Building, Berhampore 742101.

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.