MICR Code: 854010703

Bank: Allahabad Bank
IFSC Code: Alla0210601
MICR Code: 854010703
Address: Vill & Po- Barsoi Via- Barsoi Ghat Dist- Katihar( Bihar)
City: Katihar
District: Barsoi
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 854010703.

  • In this case first three codes 854 is city code and it represents city Katihar.
  • Next three characters 010 represents bank Allahabad Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 703 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Vill & Po- Barsoi Via- Barsoi Ghat Dist- Katihar( Bihar).

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.