MICR Code: 560240020

Bank: HDFC Bank
IFSC Code: Hdfc0000446
MICR Code: 560240020
Address: 119, Gandhi Bazaar Main Road, Basavangudi. Bangalorekarnataka560004
City: Bangalore Urban
District: Bangalore
State: Karnataka

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 560240020.

  • In this case first three codes 560 is city code and it represents city Bangalore Urban.
  • Next three characters 240 represents bank HDFC Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 020 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address 119, Gandhi Bazaar Main Road, Basavangudi. Bangalorekarnataka560004.

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.