MICR Code: 226013045

Bank: Bank of India
IFSC Code: Bkid0006874
MICR Code: 226013045
Address: Sitapur Road, Post- Bakshi Ka Talab,
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 226013045.

  • In this case first three codes 226 is city code and it represents city Lucknow.
  • Next three characters 013 represents bank Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 045 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Sitapur Road, Post- Bakshi Ka Talab,.

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.