MICR Code: 141010004

Bank: Allahabad Bank
IFSC Code: Alla0210172
MICR Code: 141010004
Address: 5, Attar Singh Street, Near Clock Tower Ludhiana-141 001
City: Ludhiana
District: Ludhiana
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 141010004.

  • In this case first three codes 141 is city code and it represents city Ludhiana.
  • Next three characters 010 represents bank Allahabad Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 004 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address 5, Attar Singh Street, Near Clock Tower Ludhiana-141 001.

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.