MICR Code: 209010456

Bank: Allahabad Bank
IFSC Code: Alla0211231
MICR Code: 209010456
Address: Vill. Simau Dist. Unnao, Block- Pihani
City: Unnao
District: Simau
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 209010456.

  • In this case first three codes 209 is city code and it represents city Unnao.
  • Next three characters 010 represents bank Allahabad Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 456 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Vill. Simau Dist. Unnao, Block- Pihani.

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.