MICR Code: 226011016

Bank: Andhra Bank
IFSC Code: Andb0002436
MICR Code: 226011016
Address: 439 B 065, Thakur Ganj, Hardoi Road, 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 226011016.

  • 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 016 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address 439 B 065, Thakur Ganj, Hardoi Road, 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.