MICR Code: 271010072

Bank: Allahabad Bank
IFSC Code: Alla0211370
MICR Code: 271010072
Address: Po- Jaichandpur Katghara, District- Srawasti, 271835 (U.P.)
City: Shravasti
District: Jaichandpur Katghara
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 271010072.

  • In this case first three codes 271 is city code and it represents city Shravasti.
  • Next three characters 010 represents bank Allahabad Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 072 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Po- Jaichandpur Katghara, District- Srawasti, 271835 (U.P.).

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.