MICR Code: 742010519

Bank: Allahabad Bank
IFSC Code: Alla0212707
MICR Code: 742010519
Address: Allahabad Bank, Shri Kalyan Sarkar, Vill Kacaripara, Po Shaktipur, Ps Rejinagara, Dist- Mursidabad, Pin-742163
City: Murshidabad
District: Shaktipur
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 742010519.

  • In this case first three codes 742 is city code and it represents city Murshidabad.
  • Next three characters 010 represents bank Allahabad Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 519 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Allahabad Bank, Shri Kalyan Sarkar, Vill Kacaripara, Po Shaktipur, Ps Rejinagara, Dist- Mursidabad, Pin-742163.

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.