MICR Code: 495010003

Bank: Allahabad Bank
IFSC Code: Alla0211982
MICR Code: 495010003
Address: Near Sri Sai Mangalam, Ring Road , Vyapar Vihar, Bilaspur-495001
City: Bilaspur
District: Bilaspur
State: Chandigarh

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 495010003.

  • In this case first three codes 495 is city code and it represents city Bilaspur.
  • Next three characters 010 represents bank Allahabad Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 003 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Near Sri Sai Mangalam, Ring Road , Vyapar Vihar, Bilaspur-495001.

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.