MICR Code: 221211009

Bank: Axis Bank
IFSC Code: Utib0003006
MICR Code: 221211009
Address: Ground And First Floor And Basement Plot No Mi 263 Mauza Ward And Pargana Shivpur Varanasi 221002
City: Varanasi
District: Varanasi
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 221211009.

  • In this case first three codes 221 is city code and it represents city Varanasi.
  • Next three characters 211 represents bank Axis Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 009 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Ground And First Floor And Basement Plot No Mi 263 Mauza Ward And Pargana Shivpur Varanasi 221002.

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.