MICR Code: 208010002

Bank: Allahabad Bank
IFSC Code: Alla0210070
MICR Code: 208010002
Address: Mahatma Gandhi Marg, Kanpur - 208001
City: Kanpur Nagar
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 208010002.

  • In this case first three codes 208 is city code and it represents city Kanpur Nagar.
  • Next three characters 010 represents bank Allahabad Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 002 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Mahatma Gandhi Marg, Kanpur - 208001.

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.