MICR Code: 231010521

Bank: Allahabad Bank
IFSC Code: Alla0210338
MICR Code: 231010521
Address: Vill- Kurha, Po- Sahebpur Kamal, Dist- Begusarai, Bihar 851217
City: Begusarai
District: Sahebpur Kamal
State: Bihar

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 231010521.

  • In this case first three codes 231 is city code and it represents city Begusarai.
  • Next three characters 010 represents bank Allahabad Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 521 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Vill- Kurha, Po- Sahebpur Kamal, Dist- Begusarai, Bihar 851217.

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.