MICR Code: 175240002

Bank: HDFC Bank
IFSC Code: Hdfc0001737
MICR Code: 175240002
Address: Hdfc Bank Ltdnh-21, Manali Roaddhalpur
City: Kulu
District: Kulu
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 175240002.

  • In this case first three codes 175 is city code and it represents city Kulu.
  • Next three characters 240 represents bank HDFC Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 002 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Hdfc Bank Ltdnh-21, Manali Roaddhalpur.

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.