MICR Code: 249849003

Bank: Almora Urban Co-Operative Bank ltd
IFSC Code: Aucb0000043
MICR Code: 249849003
Address: Gurudwara Road, Jwalapur, Haridwar
City: Haridwar
District: Haridwar
State: Uttarakhand

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 249849003.

  • In this case first three codes 249 is city code and it represents city Haridwar.
  • Next three characters 849 represents bank Almora Urban Co-Operative Bank ltd.
  • Remaining characters which are 003 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Gurudwara Road, Jwalapur, Haridwar.

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.