MICR Code: 171240010

Bank: HDFC Bank
IFSC Code: Hdfc0003588
MICR Code: 171240010
Address: Hdfc Bank Ltd, Village Shilaru, Po. Matiyana, Tehsil Theog, Dist- Shimla
City: Simla
District: Theog
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 171240010.

  • In this case first three codes 171 is city code and it represents city Simla.
  • Next three characters 240 represents bank HDFC Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 010 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Hdfc Bank Ltd, Village Shilaru, Po. Matiyana, Tehsil Theog, Dist- Shimla.

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.