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  7. MICR: 226002036

MICR Code: 226002036

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0006893
MICR Code: 226002036
Address: Vidhan Sabha Marg, Lucknow Up, Pin - 226001
City: Lucknow
District: Lucknow
State: Uttar Pradesh

What is MICR Code?

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.

Details of MICR Code

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 226002036.

  • In this case first three codes 226 is city code and it represents city Lucknow.
  • Next three characters 002 represents bank State Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 036 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Vidhan Sabha Marg, Lucknow Up, Pin - 226001.

How to find micr code (for example 226002036) from bank account number?

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.