MICR Code: 201010502

Bank: Allahabad Bank
IFSC Code: Alla0211381
MICR Code: 201010502
Address: Vill. Kalchhina Block Bhojpur Distt. Ghaziabad
City: Ghaziabad
District: Kalchhina
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 201010502.

  • In this case first three codes 201 is city code and it represents city Ghaziabad.
  • Next three characters 010 represents bank Allahabad Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 502 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Vill. Kalchhina Block Bhojpur Distt. Ghaziabad.

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.