MICR Code: 226013039

Bank: Bank of India
IFSC Code: Bkid0007509
MICR Code: 226013039
Address: Lucknow- Barabanki Road, Safedabaddistrict Barabanki,
City: Safedabad
District: Safedabad
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 226013039.

  • In this case first three codes 226 is city code and it represents city Safedabad.
  • Next three characters 013 represents bank Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 039 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Lucknow- Barabanki Road, Safedabaddistrict Barabanki,.

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.