MICR Code: 690240152

Bank: HDFC Bank
IFSC Code: Hdfc0001487
MICR Code: 690240152
Address: Manappallil Building, Puthiyakavudist Alleppey
City: Alapuzha
District: Mavelikkara
State: Kerala

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 690240152.

  • In this case first three codes 690 is city code and it represents city Alapuzha.
  • Next three characters 240 represents bank HDFC Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 152 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Manappallil Building, Puthiyakavudist Alleppey.

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.