MICR Code: 731002803

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0003080
MICR Code: 731002803
Address: Dist Birbhum, West Bengal 731130
City: Birbhum
District: Rajnagar
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 731002803.

  • In this case first three codes 731 is city code and it represents city Birbhum.
  • Next three characters 002 represents bank State Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 803 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Dist Birbhum, West Bengal 731130.

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.