MICR Code: 721010817

Bank: Allahabad Bank
IFSC Code: Alla0212271
MICR Code: 721010817
Address: Vill & Po: Bakra Vill & Po: Bakra Block- Gopiballavpur-I, Dist:- West Midnapore State: West Bengal-721506
City: Medinipur
District: Bakra
State: West Bengal

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 721010817.

  • In this case first three codes 721 is city code and it represents city Medinipur.
  • Next three characters 010 represents bank Allahabad Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 817 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Vill & Po: Bakra Vill & Po: Bakra Block- Gopiballavpur-I, Dist:- West Midnapore State: West Bengal-721506.

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.