MICR Code: 688009052

Bank: State Bank of Travancore
IFSC Code: Sbtr0000081
MICR Code: 688009052
Address: P.B. No.1, New Buildings, Cherthala P.O. 685524 Cherthala@ Sbt. Co. In
City: Alapuzzha
District: Cherthala
State: Kerala

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 688009052.

  • In this case first three codes 688 is city code and it represents city Alapuzzha.
  • Next three characters 009 represents bank State Bank of Travancore.
  • Remaining characters which are 052 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address P.B. No.1, New Buildings, Cherthala P.O. 685524 Cherthala@ Sbt. Co. In.

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.