MICR Code: 222029010

Bank: Vijaya Bank
IFSC Code: Vijb0006520
MICR Code: 222029010
Address: 4/756, Vibhav Khand, Gomti Nagar, Lucknow - 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 222029010.

  • In this case first three codes 222 is city code and it represents city Lucknow.
  • Next three characters 029 represents bank Vijaya Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 010 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address 4/756, Vibhav Khand, Gomti Nagar, Lucknow - 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.