MICR Code: 226012003

Bank: Bank of Baroda
IFSC Code: Barb0lucali
MICR Code: 226012003
Address: Aligunj Extn Branch,A/1/4 Sect.A Aliganj Lucknow, Lucknow,226024
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 226012003.

  • In this case first three codes 226 is city code and it represents city Lucknow.
  • Next three characters 012 represents bank Bank of Baroda.
  • Remaining characters which are 003 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Aligunj Extn Branch,A/1/4 Sect.A Aliganj Lucknow, Lucknow,226024.

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.