MICR Code: 462010005

Bank: Allahabad Bank
IFSC Code: Alla0210542
MICR Code: 462010005
Address: Narayan Das Market, Chhola Road, Dist. Bhopal Madhya Pradesh 462001
City: Bhopal
District: Bhopal
State: Madhya 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 462010005.

  • In this case first three codes 462 is city code and it represents city Bhopal.
  • Next three characters 010 represents bank Allahabad Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 005 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Narayan Das Market, Chhola Road, Dist. Bhopal Madhya Pradesh 462001.

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.