MICR Code: 700093019

Bank: The West Bengal State Cooperative Bank Ltd
IFSC Code: Wbsc0000020
MICR Code: 700093019
Address: Amtala Bus Stand, Po. Amtala,24 Pgs. South
City: South 24 Parganas
District: Amtala
State: West Bengal

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 700093019.

  • In this case first three codes 700 is city code and it represents city South 24 Parganas.
  • Next three characters 093 represents bank The West Bengal State Cooperative Bank Ltd.
  • Remaining characters which are 019 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Amtala Bus Stand, Po. Amtala,24 Pgs. South.

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.