MICR Code: 173240006

Bank: HDFC Bank
IFSC Code: Hdfc0004467
MICR Code: 173240006
Address: Hdfc Bank Ltd Vpo Silhari Near Sbop Tehsil Kandaghat Solan Himachal Pradesh173215
City: Solan
District: Kandaghat
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 173240006.

  • In this case first three codes 173 is city code and it represents city Solan.
  • 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 Vpo Silhari Near Sbop Tehsil Kandaghat Solan Himachal Pradesh173215.

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.