MICR Code: 500240027

Bank: HDFC Bank
IFSC Code: Hdfc0001293
MICR Code: 500240027
Address: St. Marys Branchst. Francis Streetsecunderabad
City: Hyderabad Urban
District: Secunderabad Cantonment
State: Andhra 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 500240027.

  • In this case first three codes 500 is city code and it represents city Hyderabad Urban.
  • Next three characters 240 represents bank HDFC Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 027 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address St. Marys Branchst. Francis Streetsecunderabad.

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.