MICR Code: 643009002

Bank: State Bank of Travancore
IFSC Code: Sbtr0000005
MICR Code: 643009002
Address: P.B. No.22,, Commercial Road, Ootacamund P.O. 643001 Ootty@ Sbt. Co. In
City: Nilgiris
District: Udhagamandalam
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 643009002.

  • In this case first three codes 643 is city code and it represents city Nilgiris.
  • Next three characters 009 represents bank State Bank of Travancore.
  • Remaining characters which are 002 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address P.B. No.22,, Commercial Road, Ootacamund P.O. 643001 Ootty@ 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.