MICR Code: 226029020

Bank: Vijaya Bank
IFSC Code: Vijb0006509
MICR Code: 226029020
Address: Roshnabad Branch, Village- Roshnabad, Lucknow, Uttarpradesh, Roshnabad, Uttar Pradesh
City: Roshnabad
District: Roshnabad
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 226029020.

  • In this case first three codes 226 is city code and it represents city Roshnabad.
  • Next three characters 029 represents bank Vijaya Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 020 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Roshnabad Branch, Village- Roshnabad, Lucknow, Uttarpradesh, Roshnabad, 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.