MICR Code: 700002301

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0005156
MICR Code: 700002301
Address: Ramakrishna Mission Ashram Building South 24 Parganas West Bengal 743368
City: South 24 Parganas
District: Sarisha
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 700002301.

  • In this case first three codes 700 is city code and it represents city South 24 Parganas.
  • Next three characters 002 represents bank State Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 301 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Ramakrishna Mission Ashram Building South 24 Parganas West Bengal 743368.

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.