MICR Code: 800240004

Bank: HDFC Bank
IFSC Code: Hdfc0000332
MICR Code: 800240004
Address: Maa Sakambhri Complex, Ashok Raj Path, Sabzi Bazar, Patna Citypatnabihar800008
City: Patna
District: Patna
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 800240004.

  • In this case first three codes 800 is city code and it represents city Patna.
  • Next three characters 240 represents bank HDFC Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 004 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Maa Sakambhri Complex, Ashok Raj Path, Sabzi Bazar, Patna Citypatnabihar800008.

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.