MICR Code: 831002124

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0010026
MICR Code: 831002124
Address: Dist East Singhbhumstate Jharkhand
City: Purbi Singhbhum
District: Jamshedpur
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 831002124.

  • In this case first three codes 831 is city code and it represents city Purbi Singhbhum.
  • Next three characters 002 represents bank State Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 124 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Dist East Singhbhumstate 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.