MICR Code: 827002516

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0007264
MICR Code: 827002516
Address: Pochalkari, Dt Bokaro, Jharkhand 829127
City: Bokaro
District: Chalkari
State: Jharkhand

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 827002516.

  • In this case first three codes 827 is city code and it represents city Bokaro.
  • Next three characters 002 represents bank State Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 516 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Pochalkari, Dt Bokaro, Jharkhand 829127.

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.