MICR Code: 721800051

Bank: The West Bengal State Cooperative Bank Ltd
IFSC Code: Wbsc0vccb05
MICR Code: 721800051
Address: P.O - Egra, Dist.- Purba Medinipur, Pin-721429
City: Purba Medinipur
District: Egra
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 721800051.

  • In this case first three codes 721 is city code and it represents city Purba Medinipur.
  • Next three characters 800 represents bank The West Bengal State Cooperative Bank Ltd.
  • Remaining characters which are 051 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address P.O - Egra, Dist.- Purba Medinipur, Pin-721429.

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.