MICR Code: 276010059

Bank: Allahabad Bank
IFSC Code: Alla0211195
MICR Code: 276010059
Address: Vill- Sikurdipur, Post. Bhilampur Chhapra, Budhanpur, Dist. Azamgarh(U.P.) Pin-276142
City: Azamgarh
District: Sikurdipur
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 276010059.

  • In this case first three codes 276 is city code and it represents city Azamgarh.
  • Next three characters 010 represents bank Allahabad Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 059 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Vill- Sikurdipur, Post. Bhilampur Chhapra, Budhanpur, Dist. Azamgarh(U.P.) Pin-276142.

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.