MICR Code: 700010511

Bank: Allahabad Bank
IFSC Code: Alla0211209
MICR Code: 700010511
Address: Vill. Dakshin Mahendrapur, Po Joginderopur, South 24 Paraganas, West Bengal
City: South 24 Parganas
District: Dhruba Bazar
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 700010511.

  • In this case first three codes 700 is city code and it represents city South 24 Parganas.
  • Next three characters 010 represents bank Allahabad Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 511 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Vill. Dakshin Mahendrapur, Po Joginderopur, South 24 Paraganas, 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.