MICR Code: 494010502

Bank: Allahabad Bank
IFSC Code: Alla0213466
MICR Code: 494010502
Address: At Jamawada, Po Bademurma, Tehsil Jagdalpur, Dist Bastar, Chhattisgarh, Pin 494001
City: Bastar
District: Jagdalpur
State: Chhattisgarh

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 494010502.

  • In this case first three codes 494 is city code and it represents city Bastar.
  • Next three characters 010 represents bank Allahabad Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 502 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address At Jamawada, Po Bademurma, Tehsil Jagdalpur, Dist Bastar, Chhattisgarh, Pin 494001.

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.