MICR Code: 271010257

Bank: Allahabad Bank
IFSC Code: Alla0210832
MICR Code: 271010257
Address: Vill. & P.O. Gendas Buzurg, Balrampur Uttar Pradesh -271604
City: Balrampur
District: Gondas Buzurg
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 271010257.

  • 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 257 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Vill. & P.O. Gendas Buzurg, Balrampur Uttar Pradesh -271604.

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.