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MICR Code: 700005005

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0030287
MICR Code: 700005005
Address: 47 By 3, Purna Chandra Mitra Lane, Tolly Gunj, Swiss Park
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 700005005.

  • In this case first three codes 700 is city code and it represents city Kolkata.
  • Next three characters 005 represents bank State Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 005 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address 47 By 3, Purna Chandra Mitra Lane, Tolly Gunj, Swiss Park.

How to find micr code (for example 700005005) 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.