MICR Code: 212010501

Bank: Allahabad Bank
IFSC Code: Alla0211499
MICR Code: 212010501
Address: Vill & P.O. Alipur Bhadar Fatehpur Fatehpur Fatehpur Uttar Pradesh
City: Fatehpur
District: Allipur Bhadar
State: Uttar Pradesh

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 212010501.

  • In this case first three codes 212 is city code and it represents city Fatehpur.
  • Next three characters 010 represents bank Allahabad Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 501 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Vill & P.O. Alipur Bhadar Fatehpur Fatehpur Fatehpur Uttar Pradesh.

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.