MICR Code: 211010508

Bank: Allahabad Bank
IFSC Code: Alla0211442
MICR Code: 211010508
Address: Vill: Serawan, P.O. Atrampur Dist. Allahabad Uttar Pradesh 229412
City: Allahabad
District: Seranwa
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 211010508.

  • In this case first three codes 211 is city code and it represents city Allahabad.
  • Next three characters 010 represents bank Allahabad Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 508 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Vill: Serawan, P.O. Atrampur Dist. Allahabad Uttar Pradesh 229412.

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.