MICR Code: 226002054

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0010512
MICR Code: 226002054
Address: Sf 8 B East End Mall Tc 54 Vibhuti Khand Gomatinagar Lucknow U P 226010
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 226002054.

  • 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 054 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Sf 8 B East End Mall Tc 54 Vibhuti Khand Gomatinagar Lucknow U P 226010.

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.