MICR Code: 822002026

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0012629
MICR Code: 822002026
Address: Hussainabad Bazar,H By Ojamuna Singh, Distpalamu822116
City: Palamu
District: Hussainabad
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 822002026.

  • In this case first three codes 822 is city code and it represents city Palamu.
  • Next three characters 002 represents bank State Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 026 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Hussainabad Bazar,H By Ojamuna Singh, Distpalamu822116.

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.