MICR Code: 700010034

Bank: Allahabad Bank
IFSC Code: Alla0210279
MICR Code: 700010034
Address: 425, Lake Gardens Rd. Kol-045
City: Kolkata
District: Kolkata
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 700010034.

  • In this case first three codes 700 is city code and it represents city Kolkata.
  • Next three characters 010 represents bank Allahabad Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 034 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address 425, Lake Gardens Rd. Kol-045.

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.