MICR Code: 226029009

Bank: Vijaya Bank
IFSC Code: Vijb0007134
MICR Code: 226029009
Address: Gomtinagar Lucknow, No A-1/33, Vijay Khand, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh
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 226029009.

  • In this case first three codes 226 is city code and it represents city Lucknow.
  • Next three characters 029 represents bank Vijaya Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 009 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Gomtinagar Lucknow, No A-1/33, Vijay Khand, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh.

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.