MICR Code: 226229004

Bank: ICICI Bank
IFSC Code: Icic0000318
MICR Code: 226229004
Address: Shop No. 1, 569 Ka/199, Sneh Nagar, Alambagh┬Á226005┬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 226229004.

  • 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 004 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Shop No. 1, 569 Ka/199, Sneh Nagar, Alambagh┬Á226005┬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.