MICR Code: 851002005

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0006015
MICR Code: 851002005
Address: Khagaria, Bihar 851204
City: Khagaria
District: Khagaria
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 851002005.

  • In this case first three codes 851 is city code and it represents city Khagaria.
  • Next three characters 002 represents bank State Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 005 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Khagaria, Bihar 851204.

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.