MICR Code: 700093014

Bank: The West Bengal State Cooperative Bank Ltd
IFSC Code: Wbsc0000014
MICR Code: 700093014
Address: Ec Block, Salt Lake City, Kolkata 700 054
City: Kolkata
District: Salt Lake
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 700093014.

  • In this case first three codes 700 is city code and it represents city Kolkata.
  • Next three characters 093 represents bank The West Bengal State Cooperative Bank Ltd.
  • Remaining characters which are 014 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Ec Block, Salt Lake City, Kolkata 700 054.

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.