MICR Code: 848010501

Bank: Allahabad Bank
IFSC Code: Alla0211314
MICR Code: 848010501
Address: Vill.+ Po:- Singhia Khurd, Distt:- Samastipur, Bihar
City: Samastipur
District: Singhia Khurd
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 848010501.

  • In this case first three codes 848 is city code and it represents city Samastipur.
  • 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:- Singhia Khurd, Distt:- Samastipur, 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.