MICR Code: 700010158

Bank: Allahabad Bank
IFSC Code: Alla0210042
MICR Code: 700010158
Address: Ananda Bazar P.O. Naihati , Dist. North 24 Pgs, West Bengal
City: North 24 Parganas
District: Deulpara
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 700010158.

  • In this case first three codes 700 is city code and it represents city North 24 Parganas.
  • Next three characters 010 represents bank Allahabad Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 158 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Ananda Bazar P.O. Naihati , Dist. North 24 Pgs, 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.