MICR Code: 226211014

Bank: Axis Bank
IFSC Code: Utib0002800
MICR Code: 226211014
Address: Ground Floor Edelco Corporate Tower Unit 78 Plot No Tc 13V16 Vibhuti Khand Gomti Nagar 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 226211014.

  • In this case first three codes 226 is city code and it represents city Lucknow.
  • Next three characters 211 represents bank Axis Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 014 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Ground Floor Edelco Corporate Tower Unit 78 Plot No Tc 13V16 Vibhuti Khand Gomti Nagar 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.