MICR Code: 226002041

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0004166
MICR Code: 226002041
Address: 6A, Way Road, Gokhle Marglucknow, Uttar Pradesh , Pin-226001
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 226002041.

  • 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 041 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address 6A, Way Road, Gokhle Marglucknow, Uttar Pradesh , Pin-226001.

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.