MICR Code: 231699004

Bank: Allahabad Bank
IFSC Code: Alla0au1216
MICR Code: 231699004
Address: Lal Diggi, Nagar, Mirzapur-231001
City: Mirzapur
District: Mirzapur
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 231699004.

  • In this case first three codes 231 is city code and it represents city Mirzapur.
  • Next three characters 699 represents bank Allahabad Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 004 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Lal Diggi, Nagar, Mirzapur-231001.

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.