MICR Code: 231699008

Bank: Allahabad Bank
IFSC Code: Alla0au1184
MICR Code: 231699008
Address: Sri Kanhaiyalal Yadav Bldg., Lakhanpur, Mavaiya, Teh. Sadar,231312
City: Sitapur
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 231699008.

  • In this case first three codes 231 is city code and it represents city Sitapur.
  • Next three characters 699 represents bank Allahabad Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 008 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Sri Kanhaiyalal Yadav Bldg., Lakhanpur, Mavaiya, Teh. Sadar,231312.

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.