MICR Code: 802010505

Bank: Allahabad Bank
IFSC Code: Alla0210578
MICR Code: 802010505
Address: Vill. & P.O. Simri, Dist - Buxar - 802135
City: Buxar
District: Simri
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 802010505.

  • In this case first three codes 802 is city code and it represents city Buxar.
  • Next three characters 010 represents bank Allahabad Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 505 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Vill. & P.O. Simri, Dist - Buxar - 802135.

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.