MICR Code: 486010001

Bank: Allahabad Bank
IFSC Code: Alla0210253
MICR Code: 486010001
Address: Hospital Chowk, Sidhi
City: Sindi
District: Sidhi
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 486010001.

  • In this case first three codes 486 is city code and it represents city Sindi.
  • Next three characters 010 represents bank Allahabad Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 001 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Hospital Chowk, Sidhi.

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.