MICR Code: 261010527

Bank: Allahabad Bank
IFSC Code: Alla0212989
MICR Code: 261010527
Address: Khairabad Distt Sitapur U.P 261131
City: Sitapur
District: Khairabad
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 261010527.

  • In this case first three codes 261 is city code and it represents city Sitapur.
  • Next three characters 010 represents bank Allahabad Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 527 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Khairabad Distt Sitapur U.P 261131.

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.