MICR Code: 221010506

Bank: Allahabad Bank
IFSC Code: Alla0213006
MICR Code: 221010506
Address: Vill. Po Rudauli, Distt Mirzapur, Pin 231212
City: Bara Banki
District: Rudauli
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 221010506.

  • In this case first three codes 221 is city code and it represents city Bara Banki.
  • Next three characters 010 represents bank Allahabad Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 506 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Vill. Po Rudauli, Distt Mirzapur, Pin 231212.

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.