MICR Code: 400010046

Bank: Allahabad Bank
IFSC Code: Alla0212643
MICR Code: 400010046
Address: Bldg No.86, Nehru Nagar, Nijadham Chs, Opp. Pant Walewalkar School, Kurla(E)-400024
City: Greater Bombay
District: Mumbai
State: Maharashtra

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 400010046.

  • In this case first three codes 400 is city code and it represents city Greater Bombay.
  • Next three characters 010 represents bank Allahabad Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 046 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Bldg No.86, Nehru Nagar, Nijadham Chs, Opp. Pant Walewalkar School, Kurla(E)-400024.

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.