MICR Code: 173240152

Bank: HDFC Bank
IFSC Code: Hdfc0002101
MICR Code: 173240152
Address: Kala Amb Hdfc Bank Ltd Nahan Road, Kala Amb Dist- Sirmaur Pin 173030
City: Sirmaur
District: Kala Amb
State: Himachal 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 173240152.

  • In this case first three codes 173 is city code and it represents city Sirmaur.
  • Next three characters 240 represents bank HDFC Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 152 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Kala Amb Hdfc Bank Ltd Nahan Road, Kala Amb Dist- Sirmaur Pin 173030.

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.