MICR Code: 802010504

Bank: Allahabad Bank
IFSC Code: Alla0211121
MICR Code: 802010504
Address: Vill & Po : Biswanathpur, Via Maratola, Paschim Medinipur, West Bengal
City: Medinipur
District: Biswanathpur
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 802010504.

  • In this case first three codes 802 is city code and it represents city Medinipur.
  • Next three characters 010 represents bank Allahabad Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 504 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Vill & Po : Biswanathpur, Via Maratola, Paschim Medinipur, West Bengal.

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.