MICR Code: 228010055

Bank: Allahabad Bank
IFSC Code: Alla0212930
MICR Code: 228010055
Address: Vivekanand Nagar, Chanda Road, Kadipur, Dist. Sultanpur, Up 228145
City: Sultanpur
District: Kadipur
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 228010055.

  • In this case first three codes 228 is city code and it represents city Sultanpur.
  • Next three characters 010 represents bank Allahabad Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 055 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Vivekanand Nagar, Chanda Road, Kadipur, Dist. Sultanpur, Up 228145.

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.