MICR Code: 222012052

Bank: Bank of Baroda
IFSC Code: Barb0shahec
MICR Code: 222012052
Address: Shahganj, Faizabad Varanasi Uttar Pradesh 224184
City: Shahganj
District: Shahganj
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 222012052.

  • In this case first three codes 222 is city code and it represents city Shahganj.
  • Next three characters 012 represents bank Bank of Baroda.
  • Remaining characters which are 052 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Shahganj, Faizabad Varanasi Uttar Pradesh 224184.

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.