MICR Code: 142010052

Bank: Allahabad Bank
IFSC Code: Alla0212714
MICR Code: 142010052
Address: Allahabad Bank, Old Sabzi Mandi, Shivalya Road, Jagraon, Punjab ( Pin-142026)
City: Ludhiana
District: Jagraon
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 142010052.

  • In this case first three codes 142 is city code and it represents city Ludhiana.
  • Next three characters 010 represents bank Allahabad Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 052 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Allahabad Bank, Old Sabzi Mandi, Shivalya Road, Jagraon, Punjab ( Pin-142026).

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.