MICR Code: 842240006

Bank: HDFC Bank
IFSC Code: Hdfc0009031
MICR Code: 842240006
Address: Hdfc Bank Ltd First Floor Dulari Complex Zeromile Akhra Ghat Road Muzaffarpur Bihar 842001
City: Muzaffarpur
District: Muzaffarpur
State: Bihar

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 842240006.

  • In this case first three codes 842 is city code and it represents city Muzaffarpur.
  • Next three characters 240 represents bank HDFC Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 006 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Hdfc Bank Ltd First Floor Dulari Complex Zeromile Akhra Ghat Road Muzaffarpur Bihar 842001.

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.