MICR Code: 208010502

Bank: Allahabad Bank
IFSC Code: Alla0213035
MICR Code: 208010502
Address: Opp Police Chowki Kushmanda Nagar Ghatampur Kanpur Nagar -209206
City: Dhanbad
District: Dhanbad
State: Jharkhand

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 208010502.

  • In this case first three codes 208 is city code and it represents city Dhanbad.
  • Next three characters 010 represents bank Allahabad Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 502 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Opp Police Chowki Kushmanda Nagar Ghatampur Kanpur Nagar -209206.

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.