MICR Code: 231010176

Bank: Allahabad Bank
IFSC Code: Alla0212644
MICR Code: 231010176
Address: Allahabad Bank, Village & Po Kachnarwa, Block Chopan, District Sonebhadra, Uttar Pradesh, Pin-232221
City: Sonbhadra
District: Chopan
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 231010176.

  • In this case first three codes 231 is city code and it represents city Sonbhadra.
  • Next three characters 010 represents bank Allahabad Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 176 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Allahabad Bank, Village & Po Kachnarwa, Block Chopan, District Sonebhadra, Uttar Pradesh, Pin-232221.

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.