MICR Code: 226229002

Bank: ICICI Bank
IFSC Code: Icic0006281
MICR Code: 226229002
Address: 11, Mg Road, Hazarat Gunj, Lucknow.┬Á226001┬Á
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 226229002.

  • In this case first three codes 226 is city code and it represents city Lucknow.
  • Next three characters 229 represents bank ICICI Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 002 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address 11, Mg Road, Hazarat Gunj, Lucknow.┬Á226001┬Á.

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.