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  7. MICR: 700002117

MICR Code: 700002117

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0004640
MICR Code: 700002117
Address: Howrah State West Bengal Pin711202
City: Kolkata
District: Howrah
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 700002117.

  • In this case first three codes 700 is city code and it represents city Kolkata.
  • Next three characters 002 represents bank State Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 117 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Howrah State West Bengal Pin711202.

How to find micr code (for example 700002117) 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.