MICR Code: 735002508

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0006278
MICR Code: 735002508
Address: Dist Jalpaiguri, West Bengal 735208
City: Malda
District: Jaygaon
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 735002508.

  • In this case first three codes 735 is city code and it represents city Malda.
  • Next three characters 002 represents bank State Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 508 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Dist Jalpaiguri, West Bengal 735208.

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.