MICR Code: 741002008

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0000122
MICR Code: 741002008
Address: 5B, B.L. Roy Rd., Krishnagar, Nadia-741101
City: Nadia
District: Krishnagar
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 741002008.

  • In this case first three codes 741 is city code and it represents city Nadia.
  • Next three characters 002 represents bank State Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 008 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address 5B, B.L. Roy Rd., Krishnagar, Nadia-741101.

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.