MICR Code: 700002152

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0002032
MICR Code: 700002152
Address: 38, Mahatma Gandhi Rd24- Parganas S West Bengal
City: South 24 Parganas
District: Budge Budge
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 700002152.

  • In this case first three codes 700 is city code and it represents city South 24 Parganas.
  • Next three characters 002 represents bank State Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 152 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address 38, Mahatma Gandhi Rd24- Parganas S West Bengal.

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.