MICR Code: 227014002

Bank: Bank of Maharashtra
IFSC Code: Mahb0001665
MICR Code: 227014002
Address: Sagra Tiraha, Amethi Dist - Chhatrapati Shahu Maharaj Nagar, U.P.- 227405
City: Lucknow
District: Amethi
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 227014002.

  • In this case first three codes 227 is city code and it represents city Lucknow.
  • Next three characters 014 represents bank Bank of Maharashtra.
  • Remaining characters which are 002 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Sagra Tiraha, Amethi Dist - Chhatrapati Shahu Maharaj Nagar, U.P.- 227405.

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.