MICR Code: 700002189
| Bank: State Bank of India |
| IFSC Code: Sbin0009884 |
| MICR Code: 700002189 |
| Address: 12, Biplabi Kanai Bhattachrjee Sarani, Kolkata 700027 |
| 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 700002189.
- 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 189 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address 12, Biplabi Kanai Bhattachrjee Sarani, Kolkata 700027.
The easiest way to find MICR code is to check your
- Bank account statement
- Cheques
Please examine below sample cheque for more details
I hope this clears doubts.