MICR Code: 248002008

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0000739
MICR Code: 248002008
Address: Prem Nagar, Dehra Dundist Dehra Dun, Uttar Pradesh 248010
City: Dehradun
District: Dehra Dun
State: Uttarakhand

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 248002008.

  • In this case first three codes 248 is city code and it represents city Dehradun.
  • Next three characters 002 represents bank State Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 008 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Prem Nagar, Dehra Dundist Dehra Dun, Uttar Pradesh 248010.

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.