MICR Code: 226017018

Bank: Corporation Bank
IFSC Code: Corp0001520
MICR Code: 226017018
Address: Phatta No 4, I I M Road, Lucknow - 226002
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 226017018.

  • In this case first three codes 226 is city code and it represents city Lucknow.
  • Next three characters 017 represents bank Corporation Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 018 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Phatta No 4, I I M Road, Lucknow - 226002.

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.