MICR Code: 500240057

Bank: HDFC Bank
IFSC Code: Hdfc0002705
MICR Code: 500240057
Address: 5-3-372 1 St Floor R.P. Road Secunderabad Andhra Pradesh 500003
City: Hyderabad
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 500240057.

  • In this case first three codes 500 is city code and it represents city Hyderabad.
  • Next three characters 240 represents bank HDFC Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 057 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address 5-3-372 1 St Floor R.P. Road Secunderabad Andhra Pradesh 500003.

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.