MICR Code: 226028501

Bank: UCO Bank
IFSC Code: Ucba0001260
MICR Code: 226028501
Address: Uco Banksameshi 227308
City: Lucknow
District: Sameshi
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 226028501.

  • In this case first three codes 226 is city code and it represents city Lucknow.
  • Next three characters 028 represents bank UCO Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 501 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Uco Banksameshi 227308.

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.