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  7. MICR: 700002243

MICR Code: 700002243

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0000199
MICR Code: 700002243
Address: Orissa Trunk Road Howrah, Distt. Howrah, West Bengal 711315
City: Howrah
District: Uluberia
State: West Bengal

What is MICR Code?

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.

Details of MICR Code

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 700002243.

  • In this case first three codes 700 is city code and it represents city Howrah.
  • Next three characters 002 represents bank State Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 243 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Orissa Trunk Road Howrah, Distt. Howrah, West Bengal 711315.

How to find micr code (for example 700002243) from bank account number?

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.