MICR Code: 144010102

Bank: Allahabad Bank
IFSC Code: Alla0210169
MICR Code: 144010102
Address: The Mall, Kapurthala Dist. Kapurthala Punjab 144601
City: Kapurthala
District: Kapurthala
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 144010102.

  • In this case first three codes 144 is city code and it represents city Kapurthala.
  • Next three characters 010 represents bank Allahabad Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 102 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address The Mall, Kapurthala Dist. Kapurthala Punjab 144601.

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.