MICR Code: 833002801

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0001214
MICR Code: 833002801
Address: Pobarajamda
City: Paschimi Singhbhum
District: Westsinghbhum
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 833002801.

  • In this case first three codes 833 is city code and it represents city Paschimi Singhbhum.
  • Next three characters 002 represents bank State Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 801 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Pobarajamda.

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.