MICR Code: 700002145

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0001612
MICR Code: 700002145
Address: Db-2, Sector-I, Salt Lake City, Dist North 24 Parganas, West Bengal 700064
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 700002145.

  • 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 145 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Db-2, Sector-I, Salt Lake City, Dist North 24 Parganas, West Bengal 700064.

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.