MICR Code: 804002501

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0008122
MICR Code: 804002501
Address: Dist Jehanabad, Bihar 804408
City: Jehanabad
District: Godiha
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 804002501.

  • In this case first three codes 804 is city code and it represents city Jehanabad.
  • Next three characters 002 represents bank State Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 501 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Dist Jehanabad, Bihar 804408.

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.