MICR Code: 826010512

Bank: Allahabad Bank
IFSC Code: Alla0210019
MICR Code: 826010512
Address: Vill- Sijua, Dist- Dhanbad, Jharkhand
City: Dhanbad
District: Sijua
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 826010512.

  • In this case first three codes 826 is city code and it represents city Dhanbad.
  • Next three characters 010 represents bank Allahabad Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 512 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Vill- Sijua, Dist- Dhanbad, Jharkhand.

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.