MICR Code: 422010002

Bank: Allahabad Bank
IFSC Code: Alla0210581
MICR Code: 422010002
Address: Ground Floor Chitko Centre, Wakil Wari, New Hotel- Shoukin Nasik, Pin-422002
City: Greater Mumbai
District: Mumbai
State: Maharashtra

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 422010002.

  • In this case first three codes 422 is city code and it represents city Greater Mumbai.
  • Next three characters 010 represents bank Allahabad Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 002 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Ground Floor Chitko Centre, Wakil Wari, New Hotel- Shoukin Nasik, Pin-422002.

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.