MICR Code: 210699008

Bank: Allahabad Bank
IFSC Code: Alla0au1229
MICR Code: 210699008
Address: Sonepur Vikas Bhavan Road Karwi Mafi Karwi
City: Balrampur
District: Chitrakoot
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 210699008.

  • In this case first three codes 210 is city code and it represents city Balrampur.
  • Next three characters 699 represents bank Allahabad Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 008 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Sonepur Vikas Bhavan Road Karwi Mafi Karwi.

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.