MICR Code: 812002054

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0004443
MICR Code: 812002054
Address: Sbi Patna Main Branch Gandhi Maidan
City: Patna
District: Recovery
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 812002054.

  • In this case first three codes 812 is city code and it represents city Patna.
  • Next three characters 002 represents bank State Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 054 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Sbi Patna Main Branch Gandhi Maidan.

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.