MICR Code: 226013536

Bank: Bank of India
IFSC Code: Bkid0007566
MICR Code: 226013536
Address: Village Bhaghu Kheda Block Sarojini Nagar
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 226013536.

  • 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 536 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Village Bhaghu Kheda Block Sarojini Nagar.

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.