MICR Code: 221010153

Bank: Allahabad Bank
IFSC Code: Alla0213335
MICR Code: 221010153
Address: Vill - Chaknandaveer, Po - Lalanagar ( Beside Toll Plaza), Sant Ravidas Nagar ( Bhadohi), Up- 221304
City: Sant Ravidas Nagar
District: Bhadohi
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 221010153.

  • In this case first three codes 221 is city code and it represents city Sant Ravidas Nagar.
  • Next three characters 010 represents bank Allahabad Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 153 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Vill - Chaknandaveer, Po - Lalanagar ( Beside Toll Plaza), Sant Ravidas Nagar ( Bhadohi), Up- 221304.

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.