MICR Code: 737010003

Bank: Allahabad Bank
IFSC Code: Alla0213208
MICR Code: 737010003
Address: Near Swastik Gate Upper Burtuk Dist East Sikkim Gangtok Pin 737101 Sikkim
City: East Sikkim
District: Gangtok
State: Sikkim

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 737010003.

  • In this case first three codes 737 is city code and it represents city East Sikkim.
  • Next three characters 010 represents bank Allahabad Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 003 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Near Swastik Gate Upper Burtuk Dist East Sikkim Gangtok Pin 737101 Sikkim.

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.