MICR Code: 176010002

Bank: Allahabad Bank
IFSC Code: Alla0210686
MICR Code: 176010002
Address: Adda Kacheri Dharmsala Dist. Kangradharamsala Himachalpradesh
City: Kangra
District: Dharamsala
State: Himachal Pradesh

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 176010002.

  • In this case first three codes 176 is city code and it represents city Kangra.
  • Next three characters 010 represents bank Allahabad Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 002 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Adda Kacheri Dharmsala Dist. Kangradharamsala Himachalpradesh.

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.