MICR Code: 151010003

Bank: Allahabad Bank
IFSC Code: Alla0213144
MICR Code: 151010003
Address: Sco 93 94, Phase Ii, Model Town, Bathinda 151001
City: Bathinda
District: Bathinda
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 151010003.

  • In this case first three codes 151 is city code and it represents city Bathinda.
  • Next three characters 010 represents bank Allahabad Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 003 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Sco 93 94, Phase Ii, Model Town, Bathinda 151001.

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.