MICR Code: 600009016

Bank: State Bank of Travancore
IFSC Code: Sbtr0000741
MICR Code: 600009016
Address: Plot No.97, Ashok Venkatadri, Lakshmanaswamy Salai, K K Nagar, Chennai 600078 Kknagarchn@ 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 600009016.

  • 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 016 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Plot No.97, Ashok Venkatadri, Lakshmanaswamy Salai, K K Nagar, Chennai 600078 Kknagarchn@ 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.