MICR Code: 700002187

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0001771
MICR Code: 700002187
Address: No.5, Sastitala Street, Rishra, Pin712248
City: Hooghly
District: Hoogly
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 700002187.

  • In this case first three codes 700 is city code and it represents city Hooghly.
  • Next three characters 002 represents bank State Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 187 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address No.5, Sastitala Street, Rishra, Pin712248.

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.