MICR Code: 261699557

Bank: Allahabad Bank
IFSC Code: Alla0au1269
MICR Code: 261699557
Address: Neelgaon
City: Sitapur
District: Biswan
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 261699557.

  • In this case first three codes 261 is city code and it represents city Sitapur.
  • Next three characters 699 represents bank Allahabad Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 557 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Neelgaon.

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.