MICR Code: 800002029

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0001511
MICR Code: 800002029
Address: Dist Patna State Bihar Pin 800001
City: Patna
District: Mithapur
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 800002029.

  • In this case first three codes 800 is city code and it represents city Patna.
  • Next three characters 002 represents bank State Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 029 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Dist Patna State Bihar Pin 800001.

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.