MICR Code: 826002005

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0002948
MICR Code: 826002005
Address: P.O.- Jagjivan Nagar Dhanbad Jharkhand
City: Dhanbad
District: Jagjivan Ngr
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 826002005.

  • 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 005 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address P.O.- Jagjivan Nagar Dhanbad Jharkhand.

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.