MICR Code: 416002621

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0008891
MICR Code: 416002621
Address: Tal Bhudargad, T Kolhapur, Maharashtra 416209
City: South 24 Parganas
District: Pimpalgaon
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 416002621.

  • In this case first three codes 416 is city code and it represents city South 24 Parganas.
  • Next three characters 002 represents bank State Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 621 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Tal Bhudargad, T Kolhapur, Maharashtra 416209.

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.