MICR Code: 400240155

Bank: HDFC Bank
IFSC Code: Hdfc0001799
MICR Code: 400240155
Address: Kalpataru Estate, Building No.1 Jogeshwari- Vikhroli Link Road Andheri East
City: Greater Mumbai
District: Mumbai
State: Maharashtra

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 400240155.

  • In this case first three codes 400 is city code and it represents city Greater Mumbai.
  • Next three characters 240 represents bank HDFC Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 155 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Kalpataru Estate, Building No.1 Jogeshwari- Vikhroli Link Road Andheri East.

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.