MICR Code: 176240056

Bank: HDFC Bank
IFSC Code: Hdfc0003664
MICR Code: 176240056
Address: Vpo Dramman Adjoining Petrol Pump Tehsil Shahpur Kangra Himachal Pradesh 176206
City: Kangra
District: Kangra
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 176240056.

  • In this case first three codes 176 is city code and it represents city Kangra.
  • Next three characters 240 represents bank HDFC Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 056 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Vpo Dramman Adjoining Petrol Pump Tehsil Shahpur Kangra Himachal Pradesh 176206.

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.