MICR Code: 826002018

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0001228
MICR Code: 826002018
Address: Dt Dhanbad, St Jharkhand Pin 828 113
City: Dhanbad
District: Dhanbad
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 826002018.

  • In this case first three codes 826 is city code and it represents city Dhanbad.
  • Next three characters 002 represents bank State Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 018 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Dt Dhanbad, St Jharkhand Pin 828 113.

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.