MICR Code: 226011014

Bank: Andhra Bank
IFSC Code: Andb0002198
MICR Code: 226011014
Address: Aarohi Trade Centre Chowk Lucknow
City: Lucknow
District: Lucknow
State: Uttar Pradesh

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 226011014.

  • In this case first three codes 226 is city code and it represents city Lucknow.
  • Next three characters 011 represents bank Andhra Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 014 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Aarohi Trade Centre Chowk Lucknow.

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.