MICR Code: 736002892

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0008924
MICR Code: 736002892
Address: Dist Cooch Behar, West Bengal 736146
City: Howrah
District: Kochbehar
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 736002892.

  • In this case first three codes 736 is city code and it represents city Howrah.
  • Next three characters 002 represents bank State Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 892 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Dist Cooch Behar, West Bengal 736146.

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.