MICR Code: 262002533

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0008768
MICR Code: 262002533
Address: Pankhootehsildidihatpithoragarh
City: Kolkata
District: Pithorgarh
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 262002533.

  • In this case first three codes 262 is city code and it represents city Kolkata.
  • Next three characters 002 represents bank State Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 533 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Pankhootehsildidihatpithoragarh.

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.