MICR Code: 226002050

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0010174
MICR Code: 226002050
Address: Chattar Manzil Terhi Kothi Near Clarks Avadh Hotel Lucknow
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 226002050.

  • 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 050 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Chattar Manzil Terhi Kothi Near Clarks Avadh Hotel Lucknow.

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.