MICR Code: 226004003

Bank: State Bank of Hyderabad
IFSC Code: Sbhy0021168
MICR Code: 226004003
Address: Hig 93 Gsi Road Sector E Aliganj Luknow 226024
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 226004003.

  • In this case first three codes 226 is city code and it represents city Lucknow.
  • Next three characters 004 represents bank State Bank of Hyderabad.
  • Remaining characters which are 003 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Hig 93 Gsi Road Sector E Aliganj Luknow 226024.

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.