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MICR Code: 700002596

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0012450
MICR Code: 700002596
Address: Swarnalata Bhawan, Hooghly District, West Bengal 712402
City: Hoogly
District: Dasghara
State: West Bengal

What is MICR Code?

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.

Details of MICR Code

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 700002596.

  • In this case first three codes 700 is city code and it represents city Hoogly.
  • Next three characters 002 represents bank State Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 596 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Swarnalata Bhawan, Hooghly District, West Bengal 712402.

How to find micr code (for example 700002596) from bank account number?

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.