MICR Code: 285010158

Bank: Allahabad Bank
IFSC Code: Alla0210728
MICR Code: 285010158
Address: Po And Vill. - Bangra, Distt. - Jalaun (U.P.) - 285221
City: Jalaun
District: Bangra
State: Uttar Pradesh

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 285010158.

  • In this case first three codes 285 is city code and it represents city Jalaun.
  • Next three characters 010 represents bank Allahabad Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 158 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Po And Vill. - Bangra, Distt. - Jalaun (U.P.) - 285221.

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.