MICR Code: 520010052

Bank: Allahabad Bank
IFSC Code: Alla0213375
MICR Code: 520010052
Address: D No 14-21-19, Vidya College Road, Vidya College Building, Chirala- 523155
City: Prakasam
District: Chirala
State: Andhra 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 520010052.

  • In this case first three codes 520 is city code and it represents city Prakasam.
  • Next three characters 010 represents bank Allahabad Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 052 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address D No 14-21-19, Vidya College Road, Vidya College Building, Chirala- 523155.

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.