MICR Code: 845002524

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0008211
MICR Code: 845002524
Address: Pokathan, Dt Purbi Champaran, Bihar
City: East Champaran
District: Kathan
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 845002524.

  • In this case first three codes 845 is city code and it represents city East Champaran.
  • Next three characters 002 represents bank State Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 524 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Pokathan, Dt Purbi Champaran, 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.