MICR Code: 492240002

Bank: HDFC Bank
IFSC Code: Hdfc0000152
MICR Code: 492240002
Address: Chawla Complex, Near Vanijya Bhawan, Sai Nagar, Devendra Nagar Roadraipurchattisgarh492009
City: Raipur
District: Raipur
State: Chandigarh

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 492240002.

  • In this case first three codes 492 is city code and it represents city Raipur.
  • Next three characters 240 represents bank HDFC Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 002 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Chawla Complex, Near Vanijya Bhawan, Sai Nagar, Devendra Nagar Roadraipurchattisgarh492009.

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.