MICR Code: 492010003

Bank: Allahabad Bank
IFSC Code: Alla0211875
MICR Code: 492010003
Address: Telibandha, G.E. Road, Raipur-492006
City: Raipur
District: Raipur
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 492010003.

  • In this case first three codes 492 is city code and it represents city Raipur.
  • Next three characters 010 represents bank Allahabad Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 003 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Telibandha, G.E. Road, Raipur-492006.

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.