MICR Code: 271010203

Bank: Allahabad Bank
IFSC Code: Alla0212510
MICR Code: 271010203
Address: Vikas Bhavan, Shravasti Road, Balrampur
City: Balrampur
District: Balrampur
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 271010203.

  • In this case first three codes 271 is city code and it represents city Balrampur.
  • Next three characters 010 represents bank Allahabad Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 203 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Vikas Bhavan, Shravasti Road, Balrampur.

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.