MICR Code: 208010027

Bank: Allahabad Bank
IFSC Code: Alla0213037
MICR Code: 208010027
Address: 2C117, Avas Vikas, Hanspuram, Naubasta, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh 208021
City: Kanpur City
District: Kanpur
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 208010027.

  • In this case first three codes 208 is city code and it represents city Kanpur City.
  • Next three characters 010 represents bank Allahabad Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 027 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address 2C117, Avas Vikas, Hanspuram, Naubasta, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh 208021.

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.