MICR Code: 700002044

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0001503
MICR Code: 700002044
Address: Distkolkata West Bengal 700005
City: Kolkata
District: Kolkata
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 700002044.

  • 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 044 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Distkolkata West Bengal 700005.

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.