MICR Code: 148010053

Bank: Allahabad Bank
IFSC Code: Alla0213344
MICR Code: 148010053
Address: Vill Bhaini Fatta P.O Kale Ke Tehsil- Tapa Distt Barnala Punjab 148105
City: Amritsar
District: Kalekke
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 148010053.

  • In this case first three codes 148 is city code and it represents city Amritsar.
  • Next three characters 010 represents bank Allahabad Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 053 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Vill Bhaini Fatta P.O Kale Ke Tehsil- Tapa Distt Barnala Punjab 148105.

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.