MICR Code: 852002003

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0003602
MICR Code: 852002003
Address: Dist Saharsa, Bihar 852201
City: Saharsa
District: Saharsa
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 852002003.

  • In this case first three codes 852 is city code and it represents city Saharsa.
  • Next three characters 002 represents bank State Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 003 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Dist Saharsa, Bihar 852201.

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.