MICR Code: 271010160

Bank: Allahabad Bank
IFSC Code: Alla0210978
MICR Code: 271010160
Address: Vill. & P.O. Jhilahi Dist. Gonda Dist. Gonda Gonda Uttar Pradesh
City: Gonda
District: Jhilahi
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 271010160.

  • In this case first three codes 271 is city code and it represents city Gonda.
  • Next three characters 010 represents bank Allahabad Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 160 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Vill. & P.O. Jhilahi Dist. Gonda Dist. Gonda Gonda Uttar Pradesh.

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.