MICR Code: 600009009

Bank: State Bank of Travancore
IFSC Code: Sbtr0000530
MICR Code: 600009009
Address: No.W-7, North Main Road, Annanagar Western Extension 600101 Annanagarw@ Sbt. Co. In
City: Chennai
District: Chennai
State: Tamil Nadu

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 600009009.

  • In this case first three codes 600 is city code and it represents city Chennai.
  • Next three characters 009 represents bank State Bank of Travancore.
  • Remaining characters which are 009 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address No.W-7, North Main Road, Annanagar Western Extension 600101 Annanagarw@ 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.