MICR Code: 736010503

Bank: Allahabad Bank
IFSC Code: Alla0211278
MICR Code: 736010503
Address: Vill. & P.O. Petla,P.S. Dinhata, Dist. Cooch Behar(W.B)
City: Koch Bihar
District: Dinhata
State: West Bengal

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 736010503.

  • In this case first three codes 736 is city code and it represents city Koch Bihar.
  • Next three characters 010 represents bank Allahabad Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 503 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Vill. & P.O. Petla,P.S. Dinhata, Dist. Cooch Behar(W.B).

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.