MICR Code: 815010506

Bank: Allahabad Bank
IFSC Code: Alla0210646
MICR Code: 815010506
Address: P.O. Gawan Dist: Giridih
City: Giridih
District: Gawan
State: Jharkhand

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 815010506.

  • In this case first three codes 815 is city code and it represents city Giridih.
  • Next three characters 010 represents bank Allahabad Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 506 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address P.O. Gawan Dist: Giridih.

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.