MICR Code: 700002346

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0060393
MICR Code: 700002346
Address: 1A, Ashutosh Mukherjee Road Near Elgin Road Crossing Bhavanipur, Calcutta 700020
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 700002346.

  • 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 346 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address 1A, Ashutosh Mukherjee Road Near Elgin Road Crossing Bhavanipur, Calcutta 700020.

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.