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  7. MICR: 700010146

MICR Code: 700010146

Bank: Allahabad Bank
IFSC Code: Alla0211719
MICR Code: 700010146
Address: Chandernagar Hooghly - 712 136 West Bengal Hooghly West Bengal 712136
City: Kolkata
District: Kolkata
State: West Bengal

What is MICR Code?

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.

Details of MICR Code

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 700010146.

  • 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 146 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Chandernagar Hooghly - 712 136 West Bengal Hooghly West Bengal 712136.

How to find micr code (for example 700010146) from bank account number?

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.