MICR Code: 721010402
| Bank: Allahabad Bank |
| IFSC Code: Alla0213479 |
| MICR Code: 721010402 |
| Address: Digha Bypass Road, At & P.O.- Contai, District- Purba Midnapore, Pin-721401 |
| City: East Midnapore |
| District: East Midnapore |
| 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 721010402.
- In this case first three codes 721 is city code and it represents city East Midnapore.
- Next three characters 010 represents bank Allahabad Bank.
- Remaining characters which are 402 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Digha Bypass Road, At & P.O.- Contai, District- Purba Midnapore, Pin-721401.
The easiest way to find MICR code is to check your
- Bank account statement
- Cheques
Please examine below sample cheque for more details
I hope this clears doubts.