MICR Code: 226010512

Bank: Allahabad Bank
IFSC Code: Alla0212935
MICR Code: 226010512
Address: Plot Kh Ny Gata No 641 By 1, Bramhanan Nagar, Haidergarg, Barabanki
City: Bara Banki
District: Lucknow
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 226010512.

  • In this case first three codes 226 is city code and it represents city Bara Banki.
  • Next three characters 010 represents bank Allahabad Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 512 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Plot Kh Ny Gata No 641 By 1, Bramhanan Nagar, Haidergarg, Barabanki.

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.