MICR Code: 144010928

Bank: Allahabad Bank
IFSC Code: Alla0212743
MICR Code: 144010928
Address: Allahabad Bank, Kamla Market, Opp. Police Station, Balachaur, Distt: Sbs Nagar/ Nava Shahar
City: Nawanshahr
District: Balachaur
State: Punjab

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 144010928.

  • In this case first three codes 144 is city code and it represents city Nawanshahr.
  • Next three characters 010 represents bank Allahabad Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 928 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Allahabad Bank, Kamla Market, Opp. Police Station, Balachaur, Distt: Sbs Nagar/ Nava Shahar.

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.