MICR Code: 226011015

Bank: Andhra Bank
IFSC Code: Andb0002199
MICR Code: 226011015
Address: A153s Block A Indira Nagar Lucknow 226012
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 226011015.

  • 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 015 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address A153s Block A Indira Nagar Lucknow 226012.

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.