MICR Code: 560240146

Bank: HDFC Bank
IFSC Code: Hdfc0004248
MICR Code: 560240146
Address: Hdfc Bank Ltd Plot No6 1 St6 A Main Mcechs Layout Dr Shivaram Karanth Nagar Opp Sbi Bangalore Karnataka 560077
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 560240146.

  • 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 146 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Hdfc Bank Ltd Plot No6 1 St6 A Main Mcechs Layout Dr Shivaram Karanth Nagar Opp Sbi Bangalore Karnataka 560077.

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.