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  7. MICR: 700002054

MICR Code: 700002054

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0001722
MICR Code: 700002054
Address: 79 By C, Shyama Prasad Mukhee Road, Kolkata 700026
City: Kolkata
District: Kolkata
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 700002054.

  • 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 054 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address 79 By C, Shyama Prasad Mukhee Road, Kolkata 700026.

How to find micr code (for example 700002054) 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.