MICR Code: 559026296

Bank: Union Bank of India
IFSC Code: Ubin0559296
MICR Code: 559026296
Address: Allahabad Road, Karvi( Chitrakoot), Karvi, Uttar Pradesh
City: Allahabad
District: Karvi
State: Uttar Pradesh

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 559026296.

  • In this case first three codes 559 is city code and it represents city Allahabad.
  • Next three characters 026 represents bank Union Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 296 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Allahabad Road, Karvi( Chitrakoot), Karvi, Uttar Pradesh.

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.