MICR Code: 842010501

Bank: Allahabad Bank
IFSC Code: Alla0211301
MICR Code: 842010501
Address: Vill- Po- Banghara Dist- Muzaffarpur
City: Muzaffarpur
District: Bangra
State: Bihar

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 842010501.

  • In this case first three codes 842 is city code and it represents city Muzaffarpur.
  • Next three characters 010 represents bank Allahabad Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 501 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Vill- Po- Banghara Dist- Muzaffarpur.

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.