MICR Code: 560010004

Bank: Allahabad Bank
IFSC Code: Alla0211155
MICR Code: 560010004
Address: 180, Shivaji Road, Shivaji Nagar, Bangalore - 560051
City: Bangalore Urban
District: Bangalore
State: Karnataka

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 560010004.

  • In this case first three codes 560 is city code and it represents city Bangalore Urban.
  • Next three characters 010 represents bank Allahabad Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 004 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address 180, Shivaji Road, Shivaji Nagar, Bangalore - 560051.

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.