MICR Code: 721010808

Bank: Allahabad Bank
IFSC Code: Alla0211219
MICR Code: 721010808
Address: Vill & Po: Sagarpur, Block- Daspur-I, Dist: West Midnapore-721211
City: Medinipur
District: Sagarpur
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 721010808.

  • In this case first three codes 721 is city code and it represents city Medinipur.
  • Next three characters 010 represents bank Allahabad Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 808 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Vill & Po: Sagarpur, Block- Daspur-I, Dist: West Midnapore-721211.

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.