MICR Code: 759002005

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0008582
MICR Code: 759002005
Address: Dhenkanal Dt, St Orissa, Pin 759 001
City: Kolkata
District: Dhenkanal
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 759002005.

  • In this case first three codes 759 is city code and it represents city Kolkata.
  • Next three characters 002 represents bank State Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 005 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Dhenkanal Dt, St Orissa, Pin 759 001.

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.