MICR Code: 800240008

Bank: HDFC Bank
IFSC Code: Hdfc0002532
MICR Code: 800240008
Address: Hdfc Bank Ltd., Deep Ganga Complex, Ashok Rajpath Road, Patna Bihar 800002
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 800240008.

  • 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 008 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Hdfc Bank Ltd., Deep Ganga Complex, Ashok Rajpath Road, Patna Bihar 800002.

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.