MICR Code: 854002614

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0008360
MICR Code: 854002614
Address: Dist. Purneastate. Bihar
City: Purnea
District: Damaili
State: Bihar

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 854002614.

  • In this case first three codes 854 is city code and it represents city Purnea.
  • Next three characters 002 represents bank State Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 614 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Dist. Purneastate. Bihar.

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.